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Title: An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas by Michael Lewis Goldberg ISBN: 0-8018-6362-7 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well written book that asks some important questions
Comment: like the first reviewer I also had this assigned for a class and it was the book I enjoyed the most. I've done a lot of political organizing and am interested in what makes a social movement tick and why it succeeds or fails, and this book does a great job of getting into the heads of political activists. The story is also very interesting, there's a real drama to the way the author tells the story. It reminds me of another book on the Populists, The Populist Moment, by Lawrence Goodwyn, only this book is more concerned with how women and men related (or not) to each other, and how this affected the movement. The book also does a good job of covering women's politics, especially the woman suffrage movement. The author's argument is that women tried to be both committed to their gender and their political party, and couldn't balance the two, which I think in part is a problem feminists have today. I enjoyed it very much, and learned a lot.
Rating: 5
Summary: An interesting book with some very cool women
Comment: This book was assigned in a course on American political history, and I have to admit I didn't expect it to be so interesting--I mean, Kansas??!! Turns out Kansas was a pretty amazing place in the 1890s, and there were a lot of very strong, interesting women involved in politics for the first time. The book is often pretty funny, especially when it looks at how freaked out men were about women getting the vote. I've recommended it to a couple of friends as a book to read outside of class (although it helps to like history, like I do), and though they thought I was crazy at first, they really like it to. I'm now looking for more books like it. Maybe I should start a list!
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Title: Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era by Rebecca B. Edwards ISBN: 0195116968 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics by Leon Fink ISBN: 0252012569 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: August, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 by Elizabeth Sanders ISBN: 0226734773 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 by Saul Cornell ISBN: 0807847860 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.84 |
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Title: Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards ISBN: 0812236696 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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