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    Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    Audiobook12 hours

    Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    Written by Ari Berman

    Narrated by Tom Zingarelli

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    About this audiobook

    The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet fifty years later we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power-over the right to vote, the central pillar of our democracy.
    A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since 1965, Give Us the Ballot tells the story of what happened after the act was passed. Through meticulous archival research, fresh interviews with the leading participants in the ongoing struggle, and incisive on-the-ground reporting, Ari Berman chronicles the transformative impact the act had on American democracy and investigates how the fight over the right to vote has continued in the decades since. From new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth, to cynical efforts to limit political representation by gerrymandering electoral districts, to the Supreme Court's recent stunning decision that declared a key part of the Voting Rights Act itself unconstitutional, Berman tells the dramatic story of the pitched contest over the very heart of our democracy. At this important historical moment, Give Us the Ballot brings new insight to one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781494586126
    Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    Author

    Ari Berman

    Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones. His stories have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR. He is the author of Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He lives in New York.

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      This is a very solid recitation of the need for, passing of, long time reinforcement of, and eventual partial dismantling of America's Voting Rights Act of 1965. If one wanted to simplify its theme, it would be Republicans don't want you to vote unless its for them and Democrats want you to be able to vote...period. Before reading this, I thought I had learned everything I needed to know about disenfranchising minorities in America. I was wrong. This book goes into a whole other level of analysis of how majority (and sometimes just plurality) political interests manipulate laws and regulations to keep entire swaths of the population from having any meaningful say in their government. If I had any complaint of the work, it was the tendency for the author to cite unfavorable court decisions as political conspiracies and manipulations but favorable court decisions as just naturally intelligent and just. If I may be allowed one aside, I would like to urge this book be read by any Bernie Sanders supporters who recently claimed the 2016 closed primary in New York State (but not in Florida, for some reason) was worse than the disenfranchisement of blacks by the South.