The author of The Woman's Hour comes to Frederick, MD, on Tues., March 27th, at 7PM!
Meet award-winning author Elaine Weiss, who will discuss her latest non-fiction book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking, 3/6/18). Event is free and open to the public; no reservations required. Q&A and book signing will follow presentation, and books will be available for purchase at event. The Woman’s Hour details 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. 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 Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
At the C. Burr Artz Public Library, 110 East Patrick Street, Frederick, MD. Click here for info.
