TY - BOOK AU - Grinspan,Jon TI - The virgin vote: how young Americans made democracy social, politics personal, and voting popular in the nineteenth century SN - 9781469627366 AV - JK1717 .G75 2016eb U1 - 324.70973/09034 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Youth KW - Political activity KW - United States KW - 19th century KW - Politics, Practical KW - History KW - Jeunesse KW - Activité politique KW - États-Unis KW - 19e siècle KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Process KW - Elections KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - HISTORY KW - 19th Century KW - Politics and government KW - Social aspects KW - fast KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Aspect social KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1074866 ER -