The Embattled Vote in America : From the Founding to the Present / Allan J. Lichtman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtman, Allan J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffrage--United States--History.

Suffrage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Americans have died for the right to vote. Yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' greatest error-leaving the franchise to the discretion of individual states-and explains why it has triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Voters and Nonvoters

1. The Founding Fathers' Mistake

2. A White Man's Republic

3. Constructing and Deconstructing the Vote

4. Votes for Women

5. The Absent Voter

6. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

7. The New Wars over the Vote

8. Reforming American Voting

Conclusion: The Embattled Vote

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9780674989320

0674989325

9780674989344

0674989341

OCLC:

1046676318