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The Woman's Hour - The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Paperback)
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The Woman's Hour - The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Paperback)
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You Save R87 (16%)
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"Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every
reader"--Hillary Rodham Clinton Soon to Be a Major Television Event
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in
American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment
that granted women the right to vote. "With a skill reminiscent of
Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative
give-and-take into a drama of courage and cowardice."--The Wall
Street Journal "Weiss is a clear and genial guide with an ear for
telling language ... She also shows a superb sense of detail, and
it's the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain
individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weiss's
thoroughness is one of the book's great strengths. So vividly had
she depicted events that by the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The
amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps."--Curtis Sittenfeld,
The New York Times Book Review Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five
states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected
or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down
to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a
seven-decade crusade. The opposing forces include politicians with
careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and a lot of
racists who don't want black women voting. And then there are the
"Antis"--women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing
suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. They
all converge in a boiling hot summer for a vicious face-off replete
with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's,
and the Bible. Following a handful of remarkable women who led
their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by
Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor
Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists
winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in
the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great
twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
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