SuitabookAmerica Votes
Linda Granfield
- Reading
- Read it alongside an election timeline or a simple diagram of the electoral college. Pause over unfamiliar political terms, then ask the reader to explain one process in their own words.
- Themes
- Voting rights and participation: The book places the presidential election within a longer struggle to guarantee voting rights and describes ways to help with elections before voting eligibility. Participation is presented as a significant part of civic life, while the historical struggle is treated as a subject to learn about.
- Campaign communication: The book introduces the language used in campaigning, alongside passionate speeches and sensational campaigns. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Presidential election machinery: The book follows the presidential race from the first primaries through party conventions and polling to the final count. The election process is treated as a system to understand, including the president’s job and the electoral college.
- Worth knowing
- Discuss whose participation has required protection or expansion, while remembering that the book’s treatment of this history is not fully shown here.