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The Right to Vote:

The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Google eBook)
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Basic Books, 2009 - Political Science - 467 pages
"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 Rev
  

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Review: The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

User Review  - Lily - Goodreads

Such an interesting book on a really interesting topic. My favorite of the books we've read so far for American Political History. Read full review

Review: The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States

User Review  - Thomas Stevenson - Goodreads

In 2012 the right to vote is being contested again. Republican state legislatures have passed laws requiring prospective voters have IDs. The aim is to prevent voter fraud, a crime even some ... Read full review

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Contents

PART I
1
VIII
11
Democracy Ascendant
22
4
24
Sources of Expansion
28
Ideas and flrguments
35
Backsliding and Sideslipping
43
Paupers Felons and Migrants
49
Breaking Barriers
205
94
244
The Story Unfinished
258
The Project of Democracy
295
State Sujrage Laws 1 7751920
303
flppendix Sources
369
Notes
381
139
384

The War in Rhode Island
56
PART II
61
The Qliet Years
180

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About the author (2009)

Alexander Keyssar is Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University. He is a specialist in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and political history. His first book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. His most recent book is The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association.

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