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

Author: Alexander Keyssar Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780465005024 0465005020

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life. Similar books: The Rise of American Democracy by Sean Wilentz Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin Promised Land, Crusader State by Walter Mcdougall Eyewitness to America by David Colbert What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville The American Story by Jennifer Armstrong American Nations by Colin Woodard Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin A History of the American People by Paul Johnson The Fifties by David Halberstam Plain, Honest Men by Richard Beeman