NPR’s Michel Martin talks to Elaine Weiss about her new book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, which looks at a decisive moment in the women’s suffrage movement. Heard on All Things Considered – March 11, 2018, 5:46 PM ET Read...
WAMC Northeast Public Radio: The Roundtable by Joe Donahue, March 08, 2018 This Women’s History Month, as we witness the huge volume of female candidates running in 2018, the hundreds of thousands marching at the Women’s Marches across the country, we focus on the...
by Isaac Chotiner, published in SLATE, March 7, 2018 In The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Elaine Weiss chronicles the final moments of the ultimately successful battle to grant women the franchise. Thirty-six states had to ratify the 19th Amendment,...
by Elaine Weiss, published in TIME, March 6, 2018 Women’s voices — their anger, their protest, their pain — have moved to the center of the national conversation in the United States. The extraordinary Women’s Marches kicked off 2017, bringing millions of women into...
NPR Books Review by Jean Zimmerman, March 6, 2018 We tend to forget how near a thing it was, how outlandish an idea it seemed to some at the time, this concept of women gaining access to the ballot box. In one of history’s great thrillers, the battle to ratify...
New York Times Opinion by Elaine Weiss March 5, 2018 Jane Walker will take over her brother Johnny’s whiskey label this month — in honor of Women’s History Month, we’re told — a temporary rebranding that’s fueling comic riffs by Stephen Colbert and other cynical...
posted by Cybil on March 1, 2018 Elaine F. Weiss’ upcoming The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote recounts the history of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify...
