The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States - Softcover

Keyssar, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465005020 ISBN 13: 9780465005024

Publisher: Basic Books, 2009

Synopsis

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

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Title: The Right to Vote( The Contested History of Democracy in the United States) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: AlexanderKeyssar <>Publisher: BasicBooks(AZ)

Synopsis:

The Right to Vote is the first comprehensive history of suffrage in the United States in more than eighty years. In this revised edition, Alexander Keyssar chronicles the surprisingly complex and slow evolution of the right to vote from the American Revolution to the present. Keyssars account highlights the gap between the hallowed image of the United States as the democratic nation and the reality that it took nearly two centuries for universal suffrage to be achieved. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0465005020
• ISBN 13: 9780465005024
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 495