Jeannette Rankin, America's ConscienceSocial worker, suffragist, first woman elected to the United States Congress, and a lifelong peace activist, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No" to United States involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice for change shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith. |
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Very readable, even somewhat humorous, biography of the world's least-known suffragist.
Contents
FOREWORD by Joan Hoff | 1 |
INTRODUCTION by Kathryn Anderson | 5 |
PREFACE | 23 |
ONE Determined Woman | 25 |
Two A Pioneer Family | 29 |
THREE Waiting for Life to Come to | 41 |
FOUR A Career in the Suffrage Movement | 57 |
FIVE Suffrage Success in Montana | 75 |
Suffragist | 115 |
NINE Defeated Politician | 127 |
TEN Miss Rankin Former Congresswoman | 143 |
ELEVEN Peace Activist | 157 |
Pacifist | 171 |
THIRTEEN Retirement | 191 |
FOURTEEN Woman on Horseback | 207 |
ESSAY ON SOURCES | 224 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience |
| Author | Norma Smith |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Montana Historical Society, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0917298799, 9780917298790 |
| Length | 233 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Political Biography & Autobiography / Women History / United States / General |
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