Preface to the revised edition
Preface to the original edition
Part 1: Road To Partial Democracy:
3: Backsliding And Sideslipping
Women, African Americans, and Native Americans
Paupers, felons, and migrants
Registration and immigration
Democracy, the working class, and American exceptionalism
Case in point: the war in Rhode Island
Part 2: Narrowing The Portals:
4: Know-nothings, radicals, and redeemers
Immigrants and know-nothings
Race, war, and reconstruction
Strange odyssey of the Fifteenth Amendment
5: Redemption of the North
Sovereignty and self-rule
From Seneca Falls to the Fifteenth Amendment
Part 3: Toward Universal Suffrage-And Beyond:
Franklin Roosevelt and the death of Blackstone
Our oldest national minority
Race and the second reconstruction
Getting the electorate to the polls
Constitutional right to vote
Conclusion: Project of democracy
Appendix: State suffrage laws, 1775-1920
