Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? : Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote - Tina Cassidy

Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?

Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

By: Tina Cassidy

Paperback | 3 March 2020

At a Glance

Paperback


$40.25

or 4 interest-free payments of $10.06 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 15 to 25 business days

When will this arrive by?
Enter delivery postcode to estimate

In this “heroic narrative” (The Wall Street Journal), discover the inspiring and timely account of the complex relationship between leading suffragist Alice Paul and President Woodrow Wilson in her fight for women’s equality.

Woodrow Wilson lands in Washington, DC, in March of 1913, a day before he is set to take the presidential oath of office. He is surprised by the modest turnout. The crowds and reporters are blocks away from Union Station, watching a parade of eight thousand suffragists on Pennsylvania Avenue in a first-of-its-kind protest organized by a twenty-five-year-old activist named Alice Paul. The next day, The New York Times calls the procession “one of the most impressively beautiful spectacles ever staged in this country.”

Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? weaves together two storylines: the trajectories of Alice Paul and Woodrow Wilson, two apparent opposites. Paul’s procession of suffragists resulted in her being granted a face-to-face meeting with President Wilson, one that would lead to many meetings and much discussion, but little progress for women. With no equality in sight and patience wearing thin, Paul organized the first group to ever picket in front of the White House lawn—night and day, through sweltering summer mornings and frigid fall nights.

From solitary confinement, hunger strikes, and the psychiatric ward to ever more determined activism, Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait? reveals the courageous, near-death journey it took, spearheaded in no small part by Alice Paul’s leadership, to grant women the right to vote in America. “A remarkable tale” (Kirkus Reviews) and a rousing portrait of a little-known feminist heroine, this is an eye-opening exploration of a crucial moment in American history one century before the Women’s March.
Industry Reviews
“A remarkable tale... This book should be required reading until Alice Paul becomes a household name. She not only fought for voting rights and the 19th Amendment; she kept fighting for another 50 years.”

More in 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

The Gulag Archipelago : 1918-56 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RRP $37.99

$33.90

11%
OFF
The Origins of Totalitarianism : Penguin Modern Classics - Hannah Arendt
Churchill : Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts

RRP $35.00

$31.75

Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose

RRP $24.99

$23.75

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe

RRP $22.99

$22.90

Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $24.99

$23.75

The Gulag Archipelago : (Abridged edition) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Unknown Revolution - Voline

$69.50

Montenegro and Serbia : A Velvet Divorce? - Kenneth Morrison

RRP $170.00

$125.75

26%
OFF
Golden State : The Making of California - MICHAEL HILTZIK

RRP $65.00

$50.75

22%
OFF