The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage [Paperback]

Carol Lynn Yellin (Author), Janann Sherman (Author), Janann Sherman (Editor), Ilene Jones-Cornwell (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 1998

Yellin and Sherman bring to life the struggle of suffragists to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature.The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume. The authors provide a great deal of writings of those who were involved in this important movement along with pictures and cartoons to give a vivid sense of what it was like to win enfranchisement.

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The Perfect 36 is perfect.One of the outstanding accomplishments of the volume is that, in addition to the voluminous record it presents of the suffrage movement and its historic antecedents, it also includes fair and reasonably complete accounts of the arguments made by the opponents of suffrage. -- Jackson Baker, The Memphis Flyer , 6/24/98

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The Perfect 36 is an important resource for anyone interested in how women and men earned the right for women to fully participate in the democratic process of the United States.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Iris Press (October 9, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 1882595149
• ISBN-13: 978-0916078485
• ASIN: 0916078485
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,647,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A rich resource, August 3, 2004

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This review is from: The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage (Paperback)

This book is packed with period illustrations, cartoons, charts, etc and is the perfect resource for anyone wishing to quickly and easily learn more about the Women's Suffrage Movement in general, or the hard-fought battle to win the deciding vote in Tennessee in particular. Highly recommended!

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5.0 out of 5 stars This woman-suffrage history will become a collector's item!, January 12, 1999

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This review is from: The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage (Paperback)

THE PERFECT 36: TENNESSEE DELIVERS WOMAN SUFFRAGE vividly reflects--thoroughly, thoughtfully, sympathetically, and often humorously--the social upheaval and reform impulse of the turn of the century and early 1900s. Although the 1960s have been described by historians as the "turning point" in the women's rights movement in America, the emotion-charged, pivotal one-majority-vote by the Tennessee House of Representatives on August 18, 1920--making Tennessee the 36th state to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment--distinguishes the final suffrage campaign as the "launching point" of women's rights.

This truth-is-stranger-than-fiction chronicle, covering not only the Amazonian efforts of national and local pro-suffrage warriors / leaders but those of Tennessee's male politicians and captains of commerce, African-American women, Irish-American women, and Jewish-American women in the vanguard of reform (with generous coverage given to the anti-suffrage stalwarts), could not have more appropriate narrators than the Tennessee women who gave it birth. And that makes this native Tennessee woman, who now enjoys the right to vote and other women's rights so hard-won by our foremothers, very proud of the vision, tenacity, and sheer will power possessed by the beleaguered suffragists, as well as by these modern women who researched the facts / stories, secured the historical illustrations, and wrote the text for this captivating book.

This lavishly illustrated, well-written, immerse-yourself-in-the-story book is sure to become a sought-after collector's item! --MCK

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was splindiferious!!! It really surprised me., May 26, 1999

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This review is from: The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage (Paperback)

My mind was set on this book after reading it. It touched me. I loved it! More then marvolus this book was! I would like to give special thanks to the wonderful woman who helped make this book be published, I know she worked very, very hard. She is my personal hero, somone who leads the troops, starts it all. I am proud to say this book was awesome!!