Our Unfinished March
Eric Holder served as the eighty-second attorney general of the United States from 2009 to 2015. In Our Unfinished March, written with Sam Koppelman, he traces the history of voting rights from the Founding through Reconstruction, the long Jim Crow era, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby County decision that gutted parts of it. He then turns to the modern fights over gerrymandering, voter ID laws, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The book closes with concrete proposals, from automatic registration to a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote. It is part history, part argument, part call to action.
What you might want to know about Our Unfinished March
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Former US attorney general Eric Holder lays out the long fight over who gets to vote in America and what it will take to protect that right now.
On her Twitter account in 2022, Michelle Obama urged followers to read Our Unfinished March, saying Eric Holder lays out clearly what is at stake for voting rights in America and what each of us can do to protect the vote.
No. Holder and his co-author Sam Koppelman keep the legal history accessible. The book is written for general readers, not for lawyers.
Our Unfinished March was written by Eric Holder, published in 2022 by One World.
Our Unfinished March is 304 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Our Unfinished March takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Our Unfinished March is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.