The woman's hour
Subtitle: the great fight to win the vote
By: Elaine Weiss
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 791
ISBN-13: 9781432849771
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Suffrage; United States; Suffragists; Women; Political activity; History
Description: Nashville, August 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting all women the vote, is on the verge of ratification -- or defeat. Out of the thirty-six states needed, thirty-five have approved it, and one last state is still in play -- Tennessee. After a seven-decade crusade to win the ballot, this is the moment of truth for the suffragists, and Nashville becomes a frenzied battleground as the enormous forces allied for and against women's suffrage make their last stand. Elaine Weiss recasts the saga of women's quest for the vote by focusing on the campaign's last six weeks, when it all came down to one ambivalent state.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, [2018].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-788).
Table of contents: title: To Nashville; title: Lay of the land; title: The feminist peril; title: The woman question; title: Democracy at home; title: The Governor's quandary; title: The blessing; title: On account of sex; title: Front porch; title: Home and Heaven; title: The woman's hour; title: Cranking the machine; title: Prison pin; title: Fieldwork; title: A real and threatening danger; title: War of the roses; title: In justice to womanhood; title: Terrorizing Tennessee manhood; title: Petticoat government; title: Armageddon; title: The hour has come; title: Liberty Bell; title: Election Day.