{"product_id":"the-womans-hour-the-great-fight-to-win-the-vote-9780525429722","title":"The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 its the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant entire novels of their own... Weisss thoroughness is one of the books 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 dont 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 Daniels  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 Womans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646970191925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0525429727","price":24.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780525429722.jpg?v=1781684080","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-womans-hour-the-great-fight-to-win-the-vote-9780525429722","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}