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Title: The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar ISBN: 0-465-02969-8 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE book to read!
Comment: This book is, undoubtedly, THE best book to read insofar as the history of voting in America. Keyssar writes a fabulous book - meticulously detailing critical historical information - in a manner that is readable and enjoyable. The author does a marvelous job in citing his sources.
For all individuals interested in the history of the backbone to American democracy - the right to vote - this is a book that must be read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't take it for granted
Comment: The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States should be on your required reading list if you are interested in the history of the democratic experiment in the United States. Alexander Keyssar has produced that most unusual book-both enjoyable and profoundly informative.
Keyssar traces the always contentious right of Americans to participate in democracy. I, like most others, take for granted that voting is part of our system. We are wrong. As this book shows, the right to vote has been-and continues to be-more an issue of which group has the reigns of power than a fundamental right enjoying consensus support.
While The Right to Vote fully covers the struggles of women and African Americans to obtain and keep their voting rights, it also tells the history of voting requirements tied to property ownership, immigration status, and the still-debated criminal status. While focusing on suffrage, Professor Keyssar creates a cohesive political history of the United States.
The Right to Vote is one of those important history books that should be read and then often used as a source of reference for all those concerned about our political system.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Coming of Democracy?
Comment: This is a very good history of the right to vote over the course of American history, with some surprises that shouldn't be for those left teary-eyed by the Fourth of July speeches concerning such matters. Democracy has evolved since the beginning of the American experiment, and we should hope that it will continue to do so, to earn its title. Created as a republic in the old-fashioned sense,with conditions of property for eligibility, the slow progression toward 'democracy' begins in the generations after the American Revolution, proceeding briskly yet with severe delimitations, the Civil, Reconstruction, the Second Reconstruction, and the woman's suffrage movement being important by-stations. This account does the job very well of refloatating the shadowy history, ending with a plaintive inspection of the steady retreat of voters from the voting booths. This book could be a useful introduction to the just published book, The Vanishing Voter, and is also, quite apart from its significance for the study of American history, a good companion to the study of the post-Civil War Reconstruction, where the general trend toward democratization actually reversed itself.
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Title: The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State by Michael B. Katz ISBN: 0805069291 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Big Test : The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann ISBN: 0374527512 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 16 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Wealth and Democracy : A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips ISBN: 0767905342 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ISBN: 0684863871 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Thinking In Time : The Uses Of History For Decision Makers by Richard E. Neustadt ISBN: 0029227917 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 25 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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