Tina Cassidy

A history of women's suffrage through the lens of Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson. Paul was a determined suffragette, and spent several years planning and carrying out pickets of the White House during the Wilson presidency. She was arrested a number of times, both in her early years in London and then in Washington D.C. She led one of the more assertive (many say aggressive, but it really wasn't aggressive; her pickets were silent sentinels who stood at the White House gate holding signs; the aggression was committed toward them) leaders of the suffrage movement, often annoying or angering those in the movement, and yet, reading this, it is hard to see that they would have won if they hadn't had her and her women. It seems likely we would still be politely asking for the vote if we kept on that track. It is a valuable history, only slightly marred by some odd syntax and occasional grammar oddities. Highly recommended.… (altro)