‘Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for each and every reader’–Hillary Rodham Clinton

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The nail-biting climax of 1 of the greatest political fights in American history: the ratification from the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.

‘With a skill similar to Robert Caro, [Weiss] turns the potentially dried out stuff of legislative give-and-take right into a drama of courage and cowardice.’–The Wall structure Street Journal

‘Weiss is a clear about THE GIRL Hour: THE FANTASTIC Fight to Gain the Vote and genial guide with an ear for telling vocabulary … She also displays a superb sense of detail, and it’s really the deliciousness of her information that suggests particular individuals warrant entire books of their very own… Weiss’s thoroughness is one of the book’s great advantages. So vividly experienced she depicted events that with the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I got goose bumps.’–Curtis Sittenfeld, THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five expresses have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve possess declined or refused to vote, and one last condition is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, as soon as of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing pushes include politicians with professions at stake, liquor businesses, railroad magnates, and a lot of racists who don’t desire black ladies voting. And there will be the ‘Antis’–women who oppose their very own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the moral collapse of the nation. Each of them converge inside a boiling scorching summer to get a vicious face-off replete with filthy tips, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack port Daniel’s, as well as the Bible.

Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective causes into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman’s Hour can be an uplifting story of activists earning their have freedom in another of the final campaigns forged in the darkness of the Civil Battle, and the start of the fantastic twentieth-century fights for civil privileges.