The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s

by Liette Gidlow

Book Overview

Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential election. Stunned by this civic failure so soon after a world war to "make the world safe for democracy," reforming women and business men launched massive campaigns to "Get Out the Vote." By 1928, they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886376
• ISBN13: 9780801886379
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher