Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - Hardcover

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375405607 ISBN 13: 9780375405600

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf, 1999

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Book by Ward Geoffrey C Burns Kenneth

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The companion volume to the fall 1999 PBS-television film focuses on the lives of two of the pioneers in the women's rights movement--Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton--examining their diverse backgrounds, beliefs, activism, and lasting influence on American history. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing.

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dy Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten.

Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complement

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375405607
• ISBN 13: 9780375405600
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256