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The fight to vote / Michael Waldman.

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Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought to stop th...

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Main Author: Waldman, Michael, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Suffrage > United States > History.
Suffrage.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The founding
  • "The consent of the governed"
  • "Who are to be the electors?"
  • The rise and fall of American democracy
  • Young America
  • "Sheet anchor"
  • "The bullet and the ballot"
  • The gilded age
  • The twentieth century
  • The age of reform
  • Silent sentinels
  • "One person, one vote"
  • Walls of Jericho
  • The modern fight to vote
  • Lost decade
  • Marching backwards
  • Five to four
  • 2016
  • A democracy moment.

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