The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
The Right
to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Professor
Alex Keyssar
Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy
The Eugene
Genovese Prize from The Historical Society, given bi-annually, for the best
book in U.S. history published in the preceding two years. Beveridge Award
from the American Historical Association
for best English-language book on American history and finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize, LA Times Book Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize
"...a magisterial and timely account of one
of the most hard-won and oft circumscribed of American rights. Drawing on
a meticulous reconstruction of state voting requirements over two centuries,
Keyssar acutely details the shaping of suffrage requirements by the politics of
class, as well as the more familiar stories of the enfranchisement of
African-Americans and women. Throughout, he vividly demonstrates that the road
to expansive American voting rights has traced a bumpy, meandering, and
contingent path..." --- American Historical Association
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