{"product_id":"voter-suppression-in-u-s-elections-history-in-the-headlines-paperback","title":"Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections (History in the Headlines) (Paperback)","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, and Heather Anne Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eHistorians have long been engaged in telling the story of the struggle for the vote. In the wake of recent contested elections, the suppression of the vote has returned to the headlines, as awareness of the deep structural barriers to the ballot, particularly for poor, black, and Latino voters, has called attention to the historical roots of issues related to voting access.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps most notably, former state legislator Stacey Abrams's campaign for Georgia's gubernatorial race drew national attention after she narrowly lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, who had removed hundreds of thousands of voters from the official rolls. After her loss, Abrams created Fair Fight, a multimillion-dollar initiative to combat voter suppression in twenty states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt an annual conference of the Organization of American Historians, leading scholars Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse, Heather Cox Richardson, and Heather Anne Thompson had a conversation with Abrams about the long history of voter suppression at the Library Company of Philadelphia. This book is a transcript of that extraordinary conversation, edited by Jim Downs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoter Suppression in U.S. Elections \u003c\/em\u003eoffers an enlightening, history-informed conversation about voter disenfranchisement in the United States. By gathering scholars and activists whose work has provided sharp analyses of this issue, we see how historians in general explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes a \"top ten\" selection of essays and articles by such writers as journalist Ari Berman, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight, and civil rights icon John Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJim Downs\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College, a 2025-26 Guggenheim Fellow, and the director of the African American History Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In addition to coediting\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America\u003c\/i\u003e, he has authored\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStacey Abrams\u003c\/strong\u003e is a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebest-selling author, serial entrepreneur, nonprofit CEO, and political leader. After serving for eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as minority leader, in 2018, Abrams became the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, when she won more votes than any other Democrat in the state's history. Abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. After witnessing the gross mismanagement of the 2018 election by the secretary of state's office, Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every Georgian has a voice in our election system. Over the course of her career, Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at both the state and national levels including Fair Count--to ensure that the 2020 Census is fair, accurate, and complete. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School. She and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and Georgia.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCarol Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and a Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. She is the author of several books, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEyes off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and was also a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebest seller and a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eEditor's Pick. Her most recent book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, was long-listed for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and was a finalist for the PEN\/Galbraith Book Award in Nonfiction.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKevin M. Kruse\u003c\/strong\u003e specializes in twentieth-century American political history, with special attention to conflicts over race, religion, and rights. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. He is a professor of history at Princeton University, where he has served on the faculty since 2000. Kruse is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America\u003c\/i\u003e, and, with Julian Zelizer,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the coeditor of three essay collections. He is currently working on his next project, titled \"The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department, and the Civil Rights Movement.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Cox Richardson\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of history at Boston College and the author of a number of books about American politics, including\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand most recently\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes widely for popular publications and is a national commentator on American political history and the Republican Party. Her work has appeared in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuartz\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications, and she is the author of \"Letters from an American,\" an online chronicle of the U.S. government.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHeather Ann Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a native Detroiter and historian on faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the departments of history and Afro-American and African studies and at the Residential College. Her recent book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, profiled on television and radio programs across the country, won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the J. Willard Hurst Prize, and a New York City Bar Association book prize. The book was also named a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize in History, and the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and it was named on fourteen best books of 2016 lists including those compiled by the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarshall Project\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaltimore City Paper\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Scroll\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e. Additionally,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eappeared on the Best Human Rights Books of 2016 list and received starred reviews from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas also been optioned by TriStar Pictures and will be adapted for film by acclaimed screenwriters Anna Waterhouse and Joe Schrapnel.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #24d7de;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCategory: \u003c\/b\u003eNonfiction, Politics, History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\/Binding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Condition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003e082035774X\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/b\u003e978-\u003cspan\u003e0820357744\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003eUniversity of Georgia Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDate Published:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan\u003eJune 15, 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerms of Sale\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAll book sales are final. 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