Curtis Sittenfeld’s Rave Review in NYT Book Review: “In The Woman’s Hour, the Battle Over the 19th Amendment Comes Alive” “The deliciousness of the details in Elaine Weiss’ new book suggests that certain historical figures warrant entire novels of their own.” Read the...
In “The Woman’s Hour,” a gripping account of those fraught and steamy days in Nashville, Elaine Weiss delivers political history at its best. With a skill reminiscent of Robert Caro, she turns the potentially dry stuff of legislative give-and-take into a drama of...
THE WOMAN’S HOUR The Great Fight to Win the Vote Elaine Weiss, Read by Tavia Gilbert, Elaine Weiss [Intro.] • Unabridged • APRIL 2018 Penguin Audio • Trade Ed. Books on Tape • Library Ed. In her introduction, author Elaine Weiss frames a pivotal moment in the...
‘The Woman’s Hour’ wonderfully recalls the furious fight to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Elaine Weiss’s superb book focuses on six key weeks in the suffrage battle. Marjorie Kehe MARCH 14, 2018 —This year, more than 400 women are considered...
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...
