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The Woman's Hour

Von: Elaine Weiss
Gesprochen von: Elaine Weiss, Tavia Gilbert
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 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 American Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.©2019 Elaine Weiss (P)2019 Penguin Random House Frauen Nord-, Mittel- & Südamerika
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A page-turner even though we know the final result. Weiss's vivid narration really brings the plethora of advocates for and against women's suffrage to life, and Gilbert's reading is also excellent.
The chapter marks are set all wrong and seem to be taken from another book altogether. I wonder how this could even be published with such a glaring mistake.

Amazing book - but chapter marks are wrong

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