The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote Audiobook (Free)

‘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 one of the best political fights in American history: the ratification from the constitutional amendment that granted women the proper to vote.

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

‘Weiss is a definite about The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Gain the Vote and genial guide with an ear for telling vocabulary … She also shows a superb sense of detail, and it’s the deliciousness of her details that suggests certain individuals warrant whole books of their very own… Weiss’s thoroughness is one of the book’s great talents. So vividly experienced she depicted occasions that with the climactic vote (spoiler alert: The amendment was ratified!), I acquired goose bumps.’–Curtis Sittenfeld, THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five claims have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve possess rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, as soon as of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing causes consist of politicians with professions at stake, liquor businesses, railroad magnates, and lots of racists who don’t wish black women voting. And there will be the ‘Antis’–women who oppose their very own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage provides about the moral collapse of the nation. They all converge within a boiling hot summer for the vicious face-off replete with filthy methods, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack port Daniel’s, as well as 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 GIRL Hour is an inspiring story of activists earning their have freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the darkness from the Civil War, and the beginning of the fantastic twentieth-century battles for civil privileges.