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"A political combat memoir like no other, suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt takes us to the front lines of the Votes for Women battlefields — in the states and in Congress — as American women fight for the franchise. With candor and flashes of wry humor, Catt offers sharp insights…
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Catt led the largest woman suffrage organization in the United States during the final push for the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited sex-based denials of the franchise. Too often, dominant accounts of how women got the vote describe the Nineteenth Amendment as a gift from men to women.
Catt’s 1923 book makes clear that winning the Nineteenth Amendment was a multigenerational battle that required mobilized women to overcome ferocious opposition.
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