The Fight to Vote

Written by Michael Waldman

Narrated by Joe Barrett

In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traces the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights to the current day. Now, in The Fight to Vote, Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at an even more crucial struggle: the past and present effort to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the writing of the Constitution, and at every step along the way, as Americans sought the right, others have fought to stop them. The Fight to Vote, meticulously researched and thoroughly compelling, recounts the entire story, from the Founders' debates to gerrymandering and voter ID laws.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Feb 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781515972167

Michael Waldman

Michael Waldman is president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to revitalize the nation’s systems of democracy and justice. He was director of speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1999 and is the author of The Second Amendment: A Biography and The Fight to Vote. Waldman was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. A graduate of Columbia College and NYU School of Law, he comments widely in the media on law and policy.

Reviews for The Fight to Vote

[annbury_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A good book by an obviously biased author; the problem is that I share most if not all of his biases and still think that he did a
good job. The idea here is to go back to the founding fathers and figure out what they wanted in a country. Of course, they did
not know what or how the country would develop, but the author is reasonable on their anti black views the and their refusal or their inability to set up a voting protocol. Clearly we have come a long way, from the times of the founding fathers when you could only vote if you were a white owner of sufficient property. The franchise was expanded over time through various means, mostly due to either the people or the legislature acting. The last fifty years has seen an expansion of the court in the vote and the author believes (as I do) that the Roberts court is determined to set the country back. He does not believe that they will succeed and offers a number of ways that we can offset this.