Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman, Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015).
"Berman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, Give Us the Ballot provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.
—Publisher's Description