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Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? - Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote (Hardcover)
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Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? - Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote (Hardcover)
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In this "heroic narrative" (The Wall Street Journal), discover the
inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between
leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her
fight for women's equality. Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC,
in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential
oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds
and reporters are blocks away from Union Station, watching a parade
of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue in a
first-of-its-kind protest organized by a twenty-five-year-old
activist named Alice Paul. The next day, The New York Times calls
the procession "one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles
ever staged in this country." Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?
weaves together two storylines: the trajectories of Alice Paul and
Woodrow Wilson, two apparent opposites. Paul's procession of
suffragists resulted in her being granted a face-to-face meeting
with President Wilson, one that would lead to many meetings and
much discussion, but little progress for women. With no equality in
sight and patience wearing thin, Paul organized the first group to
ever picket in front of the White House lawn--night and day,
through sweltering summer mornings and frigid fall nights. From
solitary confinement, hunger strikes, and the psychiatric ward to
ever more determined activism, Mr. President, How Long Must We
Wait? reveals the courageous, near-death journey it took,
spearheaded in no small part by Alice Paul's leadership, to grant
women the right to vote in America. "A remarkable tale" (Kirkus
Reviews) and a rousing portrait of a little-known feminist heroine,
this is an eye-opening exploration of a crucial moment in American
history one century before the Women's March.
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