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The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century

byJon Grinspan

Focused on how Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century, The Virgin Vote brings Jon Grinspan's historical account to a complex and consequential subject. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

264

ISBN

9781469654744