About the book
Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, traces the American struggle over voting rights from the founders' debates to present-day fights over restrictive voting laws, partisan gerrymanders and the campaign money released by Citizens United. Voting began as a privilege of a few property owners, and over two centuries it widened to include former slaves, working-class white men, women and in the end all Americans, while others fought at each stage to stop them. Waldman argues that debates over expanding democracy have always sat at the center of American politics, and the story reaches into campaign corruption, political parties, class and race. He previously wrote The Second Amendment, a history of the argument over gun rights.
John Lewis endorsed it, warning that the battle over voting rights continues today, and Taylor Branch praised it as a masterly history.
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This book has 2 recommendations
John Lewis (Author)
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.
Taylor Branch (Author)
Michael Waldman's masterly history reminds us that ‘We the People’ can and must restore our experiment in Constitutional freedom.
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