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Voting Rights: A Reference Handbook chronicles voting rights in the United States, from the colonial period to the present. Following a historical overview is an examination of current controversies in addition to profiles of key persons and reprint important documents. The book also includes a perspectives chapter featuring ten original essays on various topics related to voting rights, as well as an annotated bibliography and chronology.
The variety of resources provided, such as further reading, perspective essays about voting rights, a timeline, and useful terms in the voting rights discourse, allow this book to stand out from others in the field. It is intended for readers at the high school through community college levels, along with adult readers who are interested in the topic.
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August 13, 2020 -
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- ISBN: 9798216162841
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- ISBN: 9798216162841
- File size: 3901 KB
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- English
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November 1, 2020
Is there any topic more in-demand than voting in these perilous political times? Authors Glenn and Kreider, both authors and academics, attempt to put the issue into context with background, commentary, documents, and court cases. The first third of this volume is the history of voting rights, beginning in England and colonial America, through the present day. The second part, titled ""Problems, Controversies and Solutions,"" is aptly named. Covering issues like felon disenfranchisement, voter registration reform, and the electoral college, it focuses on very specific things that might lead to change. The third section presents signed essays on some of the issues in the previous chapter from a more pointed and personal perspective. Data, copies of relevant documents, profiles of leading individuals as well as legal decisions and a timeline finish the volume. This is clearly written and with no obvious bias, except of course to maintain that voting rights are essential to a democracy. It is an important topic and a book of this sort should have a place in school, public, and academic libraries.COPYRIGHT(2020) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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