Kathleen Lois Barry
Auteur van Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- female
- Opleiding
- University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
- Beroepen
- Professor, Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
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- Werken
- 5
- Leden
- 189
- Populariteit
- #115,306
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 1
- ISBNs
- 18
On display throughout are timeless examples of character and skill, such as diplomacy, strategy, tenacious focus, and above all, endurance: decades upon decades of self-sacrifice -- even up to death providing for the movement to continue, and all without seeing the ultimate victory of a suffrage for women Constitutional amendment, an amendment the book (frustratingly) didn't even note -- at least the epilogue, footnote or someplace should have mentioned it!
Bottom line, I recommend this book (as one with not just info but with skills to apply), even though I found the writing at times frustrating and the analysis misleading/inaccurate at points. (My main complaints are on issues that were not the focus -- theology of the time (Quakers/Calvinism/evangelicalism) and A. Lincoln characterizations .)… (meer)