{"product_id":"the-fight-to-vote-9781982198930","title":"The Fight to Vote","description":"\u003cb\u003ePraised by the late John Lewis, this is the seminal book about the long and ongoing struggle to win voting rights for all citizens by the president of The Brennan Center, the leading organization on voter rights and election security, now newly revised to describe today's intense fights over voting.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Rep. Lewis said, and recent events in state legislatures across the country demonstrate, the struggle for the right to vote is not over. In this \"important and powerful\" (Linda Greenhouse, former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Supreme Court correspondent) book Michael Waldman describes the long struggle to extend the right to vote to all Americans. From the writing of the Constitution, and at every step along the way, as disenfranchised Americans sought this right, others have fought to stop them. Waldman traces this history from the Founders' debates to today's many restrictions: gerrymandering; voter ID laws; the flood of dark money released by conservative organizations; and the concerted effort in many state legislatures after the 2020 election to enact new limitations on voting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite the pandemic, the 2020 election had the highest turnout since 1900. In this updated edition, Waldman describes the nationwide effort that made this possible. He offers new insights into how Donald Trump's false claims of fraud--\"the Big Lie\"--led to the January 6 insurrection and the fights over voting laws that followed one of the most dramatic chapters in the story of American democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Waldman shows, this fight, sometimes vicious, has always been at the center of American politics because it determines the outcome of the struggle for power. \u003ci\u003eThe Fight to Vote\u003c\/i\u003e is \"an engaging, concise history...offering many useful reforms that advocates on both sides of the aisle should consider\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Waldman is president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to revitalize the nation's systems of democracy and justice. He was director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999 and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Second Amendment: A Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fight to Vote\u003c\/i\u003e. Waldman was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law, he comments widely in the media on law and policy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554276118802,"sku":"9781982198930","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8fa150d6-a4bf-4077-9850-874f81791fa4.jpg?v=1731711071","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fight-to-vote-9781982198930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}