The virgin vote : how young Americans made democracy social, politics personal, and voting popular in the nineteenth century / Jon Grinspan.

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Grinspan, Jon [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469627366
1469627361
9781469627359
1469627353

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virgin voteDDC classification:

324.70973/09034 23

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JK1717 .G75 2016eb

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Contents:

Introduction: democracy out of doors -- Violent little partisans -- The generous ambitions of youth -- My virgin vote -- The way for a young man to rise -- Every one is fifty -- Conclusion: things ain't what they used to be.

Summary: There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. Drawing on hundreds of diaries and letters of diverse young Americans, 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. Drawing on hundreds of diaries and letters of diverse young Americans, 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.

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