The Fight to Vote - Tapa dura

"Through this book, Michael Waldman delivers a message every American needs to hear. The struggle for the right to vote is not over. It is still being waged even today. We must use it or we can lose it."--Rep. John Lewis

"[An] important new book."--E.J. Dionne Jr. "The Washington Post "

"Michael Waldman's masterly history reminds us that 'We the People' can and must restore our experiment in Constitutional freedom."--Taylor Branch, author of America in the King Years

"The Fight to Vote is an important and powerful reminder that we forget American history at our peril: that democracy was hard-won and that with the right to vote once again under attack, it's ours to lose."--Linda Greenhouse, Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School

"Waldman vividly explains why this obscure, minor provision has become so controversial."--Jack Rakove, author of Original Meanings

"Here is a smart and cogent history that performs a large public service."--Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy

"Terrific"--Nicholas Kristof "The New York Times "

"The most comprehensive, accessible, and compelling version of the story in print."--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers

PRAISE FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT

"With wit and erudition, Michael Waldman tells the story of how the Amendment's meaning was turned upside-down and inside-out."--David Frum, author of The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House

"Waldman's important and engaging account demonstrates that over the long term, the power of the democratic ideal prevails -- as long as the people so demand."--The Washington Post

“Important and engaging” —The Washington Post

From the president of NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice and the author of The Second Amendment, the history of the long struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.

In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traced the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights to the current day. Now in The Fight to Vote, Michael Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at a crucial American struggle: the drive to define and defend government based on “the consent of the governed.” From the beginning, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought to right to vote, others have fought to stop them. This is the first book to trace the full story from the founders’ debates to today’s challenges: a wave of restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders, the flood of campaign money unleashed by Citizens United. Americans are proud of our democracy. But today that system seems to be under siege, and the right to vote has become the fight to vote.

In fact, that fight has always been at the heart of our national story, and raucous debates over how to expand democracy have always been at the center of American politics. At first only a few property owners could vote. Over two centuries, working class white men, former slaves, women, and finally all Americans won the right to vote. The story goes well beyond voting rules to issues of class, race, political parties, and campaign corruption. It's been raw, rowdy, a fierce, and often rollicking struggle for power. Waldman’s The Fight to Vote is a compelling story of our struggle to uphold our most fundamental democratic ideals.