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The Virgin Vote - How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Virgin Vote - How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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There was a time when young people were the most passionate
participants in American democracy. In the second half of the
nineteenth century-as voter turnout reached unprecedented
peaks-young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting
at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their children to be
""violent little partisans,"" while politicians lobbied
twenty-one-year-olds for their ""virgin votes""-the first ballot
cast upon reaching adulthood. In schoolhouses, saloons, and
squares, young men and women proved that democracy is social and
politics is personal, earning their adulthood by participating in
public life. Drawing on hundreds of diaries and letters of diverse
young Americans-from barmaids to belles, sharecroppers to
cowboys-this book explores how exuberant young people and scheming
party bosses relied on each other from the 1840s to the turn of the
twentieth century. It also explains why this era ended so
dramatically and asks if aspects of that strange period might be
useful today. In a vivid evocation of this formative but forgotten
world, Jon Grinspan recalls a time when struggling young citizens
found identity and maturity in democracy.
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