Thursday, January 22, 2009

Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign


Product Description
Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.

Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage. [Description provided by the publisher]

HQ1413.P38.A23

1 comment:

Charlotte said...

I had picked up Keene and Adams' "Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writers" at www.bookins.com and found it quite well done. I'm pleased to see them branching out into this area. Sounds like a good one to put on my Bookins want-list!