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- 2020-09-01
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Catherine Stier
A Vote Is a Powerful Thing
Author: Catherine Stier
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 35
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STARRED REVIEW! "This book helps children make the leap from abstract concept to concrete understanding of the importance of these decisions and why voting matters...an inspiring read."—School Library Journal starred review Discover why a vote—even just a single vote—is so important. Callie knows there's a presidential election coming up. Her class is having an election, too, about an issue that affects them all—the class field trip! She's about to witness first-hand what a difference a vote can make—even a single vote—and along the way will find out about the election process and why people have fought for the right to vote throughout history. A great kids’-eye look at the power of the vote.
- 2022-01-18
- in History
- Michael Waldman
The Fight to Vote
Author: Michael Waldman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 448
View: 778
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On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
- 2020-02-04
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Ben Clanton
Vote For Me!
Author: Ben Clanton
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 42
View: 995
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A hilarious political satire by the creator of the bestselling Narwhal and Jelly series. Hey, you! Yes, you with the dazzling smile! The donkey wants your vote. So does the elephant. And each will do just about anything to win your support. Brag? Sure! Flatter? Absolutely! Exaggerate, name-call, make silly promises and generally act childish? Yes, yes, yes and yes. Soon, the tension mounts, and these two quarrelsome candidates resort to slinging mud (literally) and flinging insults. And what happens when the election results are in? Well, let's just say the donkey and the elephant are in for a little surprise--and a certain bewhiskered, third-party candidate is in for a first term!
- 2012-07-01
- in Juvenile Nonfiction
- David Leonard
Today on Election Day
Author: David Leonard
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 35
View: 469
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The school gym is a polling place and Bailey, Ren, David, Meg, Aiden, and Isabella know all about Election Day and voting! Bailey helped her Aunt Julia run for a seat on the city council. Aiden goes with his grandpa to vote. David's brother Jake will be voting for the first time. Meg talks about how years ago, some citizens were not permitted to vote. A perfect picture book for future voters of America, Today on Election Day will simultaneously entertain and educate.
- 2009-06-30
- in History
- Alexander Keyssar
The Right to Vote
The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Author: Alexander Keyssar
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN:
Category: History
Page: 496
View: 329
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Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.
- 2008-06-01
- in Religion
- Ted Lewis
Electing Not to Vote
Christian Reflections on Reasons for Not Voting
Author: Ted Lewis
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category: Religion
Page: 145
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Ethical discourse about the institution of voting rarely includes the option of abstaining for principled reasons. This collection of nine articles widens the discussion in that direction by giving readers a new question: At what point and on what grounds might one choose not to vote as an act of conscience? Contributors offer both ethical and faith-based reasons for not voting. For some, it is a matter of candidates not measuring up to high standards; for others it is a matter of reserving political identity and allegiance for the church rather than the nation-state. These writers--representing a wide range of Christian traditions--cite texts from diverse sources: Mennonites, Pentecostals, and pre-Civil Rights African Americans. Some contributors reference the positions of Catholic bishops, Karl Barth, or John Howard Yoder. New Testament texts also figure strongly in these cases for "conscientious abstention" from voting. In addition to cultivating the ethical discussion around abstention from voting, the contributors suggest alternative ways beneficially to engage society. This volume creates a new freedom for readers within any faith tradition to enter into a dialogue that has not yet been welcomed in North America.
- 2020-02-18
- in Juvenile Fiction
- Margaret McNamara
Vote for Our Future!
Author: Margaret McNamara
Publisher: Random House Studio
ISBN:
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 41
View: 944
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In this charming and powerful picture book about voting and elections, the students of Stanton Elementary School learn how we can find--and use--our voices for change. Every two years, on the first Tuesday of November, Stanton Elementary School closes for the day. For vacation? Nope! For repairs? No way! Stanton Elementary School closes so that it can transform itself into a polling station. People can come from all over to vote for the people who will make laws for the country. Sure, the Stanton Elementary School students might be too young to vote themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't encourage their parents, friends, and family to vote! After all, voting is how this country sees change--and by voting today, we can inspire tomorrow's voters to change the future.
- 2018-09-11
- in Political Science
- Carol Anderson
One Person, No Vote
How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Author: Carol Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN:
Category: Political Science
Page: 291
View: 529
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As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public Library From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin. In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice. Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organizing, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans.
- 2019
- in Law
- Joshua A. Douglas
Vote for US
How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting
Author: Joshua A. Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Law
Page: 352
View: 969
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"An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective"--
- 2023-06-06
- in Political Science
- Eric Holder
Our Unfinished March
The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan
Author: Eric Holder
Publisher: One World
ISBN:
Category: Political Science
Page: 305
View: 848
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A brutal, bloody, and at times hopeful history of the vote; a primer on the opponents fighting to take it away; and a playbook for how we can save our democracy before it’s too late—from the former U.S. Attorney General on the front lines of this fight Voting is our most important right as Americans—“the right that protects all the others,” as Lyndon Johnson famously said when he signed the Voting Rights Act—but it’s also the one most violently contested throughout U.S. history. Since the gutting of the act in the landmark Shelby County v. Holder case in 2013, many states have passed laws restricting the vote. After the 2020 election, President Trump’s effort to overturn the vote has evolved into a slow-motion coup, with many Republicans launching an all-out assault on our democracy. The vote seems to be in unprecedented peril. But the peril is not at all unprecedented. America is a fragile democracy, Eric Holder argues, whose citizens have only had unfettered access to the ballot since the 1960s. He takes readers through three dramatic stories of how the vote was won: first by white men, through violence and insurrection; then by white women, through protests and mass imprisonments; and finally by African Americans, in the face of lynchings and terrorism. Next, he dives into how the vote has been stripped away since Shelby—a case in which Holder was one of the parties. He ends with visionary chapters on how we can reverse this tide of voter suppression and become a true democracy where every voice is heard and every vote is counted. Full of surprising history, intensive analysis, and actionable plans for the future, this is a powerful primer on our most urgent political struggle from one of the country's leading advocates.
