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Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
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When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth's affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing women's rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She became one of the most sought-after speakers on the 19th-century lecture circuit, published seven books and countless essays, supported herself, hobnobbed with the most interesting thinkers of her era, visited 22 countries, and was celebrated for her audacious ideas and keen wit. Opposed to piety, temperance, and conventional thinking, Gardener eventually settled in Washington, DC, where her tireless work proved, according to her colleague Maud Wood Park, "the most potent factor" in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Free Thinker is the first biography of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship. Hamlin takes active steps to unpack the racism that underpinned the women's suffrage movement, giving listeners a detailed view of Gardener's politics and the contradictions inherent in them. Her life sheds new light on why it was not until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Nineteenth Amendment became a reality for all women.
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- De Kindle Customer en 10-11-20
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- De: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 18 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a legacy!!!
- De Paul en 03-08-21
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The Book of Gutsy Women
- De: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Narrado por: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More encyclopedia than book
- De Fountain of Chris en 10-09-19
De: Hillary Rodham Clinton, y otros
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Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
- De: Sally McMillen
- Narrado por: Barbara Goodson
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention would be felt around the world - and indeed are still being felt today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Listen
- De Kindle Customer en 09-28-18
De: Sally McMillen
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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
- The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965
- De: Jia Lynn Yang
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good overview
- De steve thomas en 10-21-20
De: Jia Lynn Yang
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 16 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls barely missed his heart and spinal cord. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age 61, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top-Notch Biography
- De Jean en 08-01-19
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The Original Black Elite
- Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
- De: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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This cultural biography tells the enthralling story of the high-achieving Black elites who thrived in the nation's capital during Reconstruction. Daniel Murray (1851-1925), an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress, was a prominent member of this glorious class. Murray's life was reflective of those who were well-off at the time. This social circle included African American educators, ministers, lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs, US senators and representatives, and other government officials.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our History
- De Deidre Jackson en 02-23-19
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The Firebrand and the First Lady
- Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
- De: Patricia Bell-Scott
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 14 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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An important, groundbreaking book - two decades in work - that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing 28-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave who, against all odds, as a lesbian Black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human rights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- De Jean en 02-20-16
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JFK
- Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- De: Fredrik Logevall
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 29 h y 27 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 554
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 487
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation that he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had become among Boston’s wealthiest, Kennedy knew political ambition from an early age, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest elected president cemented his status as one of the most mythologized figures in American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Portrait of JFK & His Times
- De John David en 12-14-20
De: Fredrik Logevall
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- De: A'Lelia Bundles
- Narrado por: A'Lelia Bundles
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then - with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for Black women - everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up that would be run by four generations of Walker women until its sale in 1985.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please read the book and not rely on the Netflix series
- De Sweet Pea's Mommy en 04-27-20
De: A'Lelia Bundles
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Union
- The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 81
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Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Required Reading
- De Ben Brafford en 08-30-20
De: Colin Woodard
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Vanguard
- How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- De: Martha S. Jones
- Narrado por: Mela Lee
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power - and how it transformed America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insightful
- De Danica en 12-10-24
De: Martha S. Jones
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Eleanor
- De: David Michaelis
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 19 h y 16 m
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In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York’s Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York’s most important power couple in a generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stands apart from other biographies of ER
- De Debra Malone en 11-20-20
De: David Michaelis
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Ida B. the Queen
- De: Michelle Duster
- Narrado por: Michelle Duster
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator”. In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of a pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated - a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for White passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I was expecting something different
- De L en 02-01-21
De: Michelle Duster
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Votes for Women!
- American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
- De: Winifred Conkling
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. In this expansive yet personal volume, author Winifred Conkling covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you, ladies!
- De Stephanie Epps en 04-26-20
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Lincoln's Boys
- John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image
- De: Joshua Zeitz
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 13 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Lincoln's official secretaries, John Hay and John Nicolay, enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president's immediate family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers of the Lincoln legacy. They read poetry and attendeded the theater with the president, commiserated with him over Union army setbacks, and plotted electoral strategy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Publicists since Mathew, Mark, Luke, & John
- De James en 04-06-15
De: Joshua Zeitz
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The Black Cabinet
- The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
- De: Jill Watts
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 19 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In the early 20th century, most African Americans still lived in the South, disenfranchised, impoverished, terrorized by white violence, and denied the basic rights of citizenship. As the Democrats swept into the White House on a wave of Black defectors from the Party of Lincoln, a group of African-American intellectuals - legal minds, social scientists, media folk - sought to get the community's needs on the table.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, important, and little known history
- De Barry en 06-21-20
De: Jill Watts