Author: Alexander Keyssar

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0465005020

A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary factors for delaying such rights have been class tension and conflict. Reprint.