The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century

According to Grinspan, adults "imbued children's lives with partisanship from the very start," although it was not until they reached their teenage years that they grasped what their families' political beliefs actually meant (18). [...]political participation offered a consisten...

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Published inJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth Vol. 10; no. 2; p. 294
Main Author White, Holly N S
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2017
Subjects
19th century
Children & youth
Democracy
Males
Men
Participation
Partisanship
Political parties
Politics
Voting
Whites
Young adults
Youth
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Summary:According to Grinspan, adults "imbued children's lives with partisanship from the very start," although it was not until they reached their teenage years that they grasped what their families' political beliefs actually meant (18). [...]political participation offered a consistency or predictability that youth lacked during this time period. [...]in chapter 5, Grinspan concludes The Virgin Vote by tracing the decline of youth participation in politics after 1900. [...]young people no longer needed, nor found a...
ISSN:1939-6724
1941-3599