| THE FIGHT TO VOTE Michael Waldman New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-1648-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10: 1-5011-1648-7 | 368pp. | HC | $28.00 | |
| Introduction | ix | |
| PART I THE FOUNDING | ||
| Chapter 1. | "The Consent of the Governed" | 3 |
| Chapter 2. | "Who Are to Be the Electors?" | 19 |
| PART II THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY | ||
| Chapter 3. | Young America | 35 |
| Chapter 4. | "Sheet Anchor" | 51 |
| Chapter 5. | The Bullet and the Ballot | 61 |
| Chapter 6. | The Gilded Age | 73 |
| PART III THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | ||
| Chapter 7. | The Age of Reform | 97 |
| Chapter 8. | Silent Sentinels | 115 |
| Chapter 9. | "One Person, One Vote" | 125 |
| Chapter 10. | Walls of Jericho | 141 |
| PART IV THE MODERN FIGHT TO VOTE | ||
| Chapter 11. | Lost Decade | 173 |
| Chapter 12. | Marching Backward | 199 |
| Chapter 13. | Five to Four | 213 |
| Chapter 14. | 2016 | 241 |
| Conclusion: | A Democracy Moment | 253 |
| Acknowledgements | 265 | |
| Notes on Sources | 269 | |
| Notes | 285 | |
| Index | 355 | |
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