How Long to Read A War of Sections

How Long Does it Take to Read A War of Sections?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 51 minutes to read A War of Sections by Steve Suitts

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 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. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized 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. Suitts 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. A War of Sections 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. Along 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.

How long is A War of Sections?

A War of Sections by Steve Suitts is 748 pages long, and a total of 192,984 words.

This makes it 252% the length of the average book. It also has 236% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A War of Sections Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 34 minutes to read A War of Sections aloud.

What Reading Level is A War of Sections?

A War of Sections is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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