Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency

by Daniel J Tichenor, Alison L Gash, Daniel J. Tichenor

Book Overview

A sweeping and innovative study that places young people at the heart of pivotal conflicts, decisions and transformations in American politics.

Even though the voting age is 18, children in the United States are both crucial subjects and actors in democratic politics. Young people have been leveraged for important political causes again and again--from the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade in which civil rights leaders mobilized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197581668
• ISBN13: 9780197581667
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"