13: #13 Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote!




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Summary: This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into books about the campaign for women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Girl Boner: The Good Girl’s Guide to Sexual Empowerment by August McLaughlin, and Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland. NEW BOOKS A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee Reader, Come Home: The Fate of the Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin Proud: My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by J. Reuben Appelman WEEKLY THEME: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE News: Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg Bringing Women's Voting Drama to TV For fun: Bad Romance - Women's Suffrage The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault Quick Hits: Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State by Susan Goodier / Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life by Sally G. McMillen / Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden / To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry / Frances Willard: A Biography by Ruth Bordin / The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson FICTION/NONFICTION Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry The Dinner List by Rebecca Searle Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson (2010) The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life by Nick Redfern The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia READING NOW Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler Forever Nerdy by Brian Posen