{"product_id":"the-vote-isbn-9781804294697","title":"The Vote","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in Britain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot, \u003ci\u003eThe Vote\u003c\/i\u003e tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the tradition of \"history from below,\" Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout, Foot shows how vested interested first delayed and then hobbled the progress of parliamentary democracy. Concentrating on the vital role played by direct action, he shows how rank-and-file resistance to ruling-class injustice was followed by retreat into parliamentary impotence. Into the twentieth-century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and its abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping work of narrative history, written in Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaged style, this book is a classic work of history, and a must-read for anyone interested in how today's political scene was formed.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART I: How the Vote was Won \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1647: Crows and Eagles at Putney\u003cbr\u003e 1790-1832: The Not-So-Great Reform Act\u003cbr\u003e Revolt of the Chartists\u003cbr\u003e The Leap in the Dark\u003cbr\u003e Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART 2: How the Vote was Undermined \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1918-18: Mond's Manacles\u003cbr\u003e The Grey Decade\u003cbr\u003e 1940-51: The Stupendous Convulsion\u003cbr\u003e Unstable Compound I: 1951-70\u003cbr\u003e Unstable Compound 2: 1970-79\u003cbr\u003e New Labour = Old Tory: The Tory Counter-attack and the Labour Surrender\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Their Democracy and Ours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"Foot's greatest book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tony Benn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Passionate, energetic and invincibly cheerful: the qualities of his final book are also a monument to the man himself\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Francis Wheen, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Foot at the height of his powers. Here is the superb journalist, historian, advocate again saying the unsayable\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Pilger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of true scholarship ... irresistibly readable\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Roy Hattersley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Foot\u003c\/b\u003e was the outstanding left-wing journalist of his generation. For many years he was an investigative journalist for the \u003ci\u003eDaily Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. In his later years he wrote for \u003ci\u003ePrivate Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Harold Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMurder at the Farm\u003c\/i\u003e. Paul Foot died in 2004.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302959861989,"sku":"NP9781804294697","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804294697.jpg?v=1767742099","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-vote-isbn-9781804294697","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}