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The Virgin Vote
Jon Grinspan
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
19th century youth culture, 19th century American history, voter turnout, youth and adolescence, Gilded Age politics, history of 19th century public life and/or popular entertainment, political machines, Civil War-era politics, history of childhood and youth, history of schools and education, turn-of-the-century American history, American popular culture, 19th century American women’s history and gender history, 19th century American politics, American political campaigns, Reconstruction Politics, 19th century courtship, 19th century political violence, youth civic/political engagement