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Helen Keller - A Life in American History (Hardcover)
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Helen Keller - A Life in American History (Hardcover)
Series: Women Making History
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This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen
Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in
the world" during her time, celebrating the 141st anniversary of
her birth. Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores
Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a
deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with
teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy and overarching social
history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with
respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive
societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This
narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's
role in the development of support services specifically related to
the deaf-blind, as delineated as different from the blind. Readers
will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her
public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live
independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited
speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the
world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for
funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with
disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help
during times of tremendous societal change. Presents
well-researched, factual material in an easy-to-understand writing
style about a complex, iconic American woman, Helen Keller, who
inspired generations of people worldwide because of her lifelong
quest for knowledge and her ability to communicate ideas despite
being deaf-blind Humanizes and demonstrates the diversity of the
deaf-blind community, which has historically been the smallest
minority in the United States at less than 1% of the population
Positions Keller in the panorama of American history, economics,
politics, and popular culture, challenging the existing narrative
created by her teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy
Re-envisions Keller within the world of ideas where she experienced
and expressed individuality through dialogs constructed from her
writings and the work of those who informed her thinking Includes
10 images that provide an intimate look into Keller's personal and
public life
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