{"id":4015,"date":"2015-11-30T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2015-11-30T18:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:19:50","slug":"give-us-the-ballot-by-ari-berman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4032\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1623625\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4032\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Give-Us-the-Ballot-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Give Us the Ballot\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Give-Us-the-Ballot-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Give-Us-the-Ballot.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1965, Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a moment many Americans believed would bring suffrage to all. \u00a0But, as this book depicts, the Act signaled both heroic accomplishments and heartbreaking setbacks in the efforts to allow all the right to vote.\u00a0 Berman approaches his topic as if it were a crime novel.\u00a0 While working in legal terms and court decisions, his focus on the individuals\u2014both those who thwarted and those who fostered the law\u2014is what holds the reader\u2019s attention. \u00a0Moreover, political figures who tried to achieve one result often, ironically, achieved the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, a moment many Americans believed would bring suffrage to all. \u00a0But, as this book depicts, the Act signaled both heroic accomplishments and heartbreaking setbacks in the efforts to allow all the right to vote.\u00a0 Berman approaches his topic as if it were a crime novel.\u00a0 While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-roseann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}