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

Keyssar, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0465005020 / ISBN 13: 9780465005024

Editore: Basic Books, 2009

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• Titolo: Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465005020
• ISBN 13: 9780465005024
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Like New

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A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary factors for delaying such rights have been class tension and conflict. Reprint.

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Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His 1986 book, Out of Work, was awarded three scholarly prizes, and his book, The Right to Vote, was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His 1986 book, Out of Work, was awarded three scholarly prizes, and his book, The Right to Vote, was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.