{"title":"Steve Suitts","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteve Suitts delves into the complexities of American history with a keen focus on the social and political conflicts that have shaped the nation. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eA War of Sections\u003c\/em\u003e, provide insightful analysis of key moments that reveal the enduring tensions within the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in historical narratives that explore military and sectional struggles will find Suitts' writing both informative and thought-provoking. His careful examination of events offers a deeper understanding of the forces that continue to influence American society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-war-of-sections-by-steve-suitts-9781588385130","title":"A War of Sections","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America’s best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. \u003cem\u003eA War of Sections\u003c\/em\u003e tells the unknown political history symbolised today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial, tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state’s rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. \u003cem\u003eA War of Sections\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of resistance and change through which a southern state’s long-standing democratic failures ironically provided motivation for and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to advance universal voting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, the book introduces from this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount issues of America’s commitment to the universal right to vote—then and now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933887938796,"sku":"9781588385130","price":84.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781588385130-a-war-of-sections.jpg?v=1783881443"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/steve-suitts.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}