The Fight to Vote

Name: The Fight to Vote
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Michael Waldman
ISBN: 9781515972167

Author: Michael Waldman

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/23/2016

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Political Science, History & Theory

Synopsis

In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traces the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights to the current day. Now, in The Fight to Vote, Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at an even more crucial struggle: the past and present effort to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the writing of the Constitution, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought the right, others have fought to stop them. The Fight to Vote, meticulously researched and thoroughly compelling, recounts the entire story, from the Founders' debates to gerrymandering and voter ID laws.

About Michael Waldman

Michael Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving the systems of democracy and justice. He was director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999 and is the author of The Fight to Vote, My Fellow Americans, POTUS Speaks, and three other books. Waldman is a graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law. He comments widely in the media on law and policy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott

“[The] right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.” --......more

Goodreads review by James

Waldman's 'The Fight To Vote' is an outstanding , well written history on the struggle to ensure America's most basic promise... the right to vote. Starting at the birth of our nation, following the expansion and contraction of voting rights, to our current sad state, it offers solutions as well as......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

While not the easiest book you'll ever read, the detail on voting and voter registration in this country, as well as background on campaign finance is extremely good. We've missed a lot in history classes, much to the nation's detriment.......more