{"product_id":"the-virgin-vote-jon-grinspan-9781469654744","title":"The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century","description":"There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their children to be \"violent little partisans,\" while politicians lobbied twenty-one-year-olds for their \"virgin votes\"--the first ballot cast upon reaching adulthood. In schoolhouses, saloons, and squares, young men and women proved that democracy is social and politics is personal, earning their adulthood by participating in public life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on hundreds of diaries and letters of diverse young Americans--from barmaids to belles, sharecroppers to cowboys--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. It also explains why this era ended so dramatically and asks if aspects of that strange period might be useful today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a vivid evocation of this formative but forgotten world, Jon Grinspan\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecalls a time when struggling young citizens found identity and maturity in democracy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Grinspan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469654741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469654744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Jon Grinspan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985670340863,"sku":"9781469654744","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_365f7ad6-fd7c-43d9-a4dc-157f33e703ab.jpg?v=1683278876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-virgin-vote-jon-grinspan-9781469654744","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}