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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the surprising tales of fascinating women such as Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Lucas Pinckney and others, from the time of the founding of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Rebecca Traister comes a vital, incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement. The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates the long history of bitter resentment that has enshrouded women's slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
791 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote. One last state is needed. After a seven-decade suffragist crusade, it all comes down to Tennessee. Following the remarkable women who led their forces into battle, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling...