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The woman's hour [large type] : the great fight to win the vote / Elaine Weiss.

by Weiss, Elaine F., 1952- author.

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Waterville : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

United States. Constitution. 19th Amendment -- History.

Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Suffragists -- United States -- History.

Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

9781432849771 (large print ; hardback)

1432849778 (large print ; hardback)

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.

791 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Large print edition.

To Nashville -- Lay of the land -- The feminist peril -- The woman question -- Democracy at home -- The Governor's quandary -- The blessing -- On account of sex -- Front porch -- Home and Heaven -- The woman's hour -- Cranking the machine -- Prison pin -- Fieldwork -- A real and threatening danger -- War of the roses -- In justice to womanhood -- Terrorizing Tennessee manhood -- Petticoat government -- Armageddon -- The hour has come -- Liberty Bell -- Election Day.

Nashville, August 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, granting all women the vote, is on the verge of ratification -- or defeat. Out of the thirty-six states needed, thirty-five have approved it, and one last state is still in play -- Tennessee. After a seven-decade crusade to win the ballot, this is the moment of truth for the suffragists, and Nashville becomes a frenzied battleground as the enormous forces allied for and against women's suffrage make their last stand. Elaine Weiss recasts the saga of women's quest for the vote by focusing on the campaign's last six weeks, when it all came down to one ambivalent state.

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