Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - Tapa dura

Ward, Geoffrey C.

 
9780375405600: Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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ISBN 10: 0375405607 ISBN 13: 9780375405600
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf, 1999

Sinopsis

The companion volume to the fall 1999 PBS-television film focuses on the lives of two of the pioneers in the women's rights movement--Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton--examining their diverse backgrounds, beliefs, activism, and lasting influence on American history. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing.

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Geoffrey C. Ward, historian, screenwriter, and former editor of American Heritage, is the author of ten books, including A First Class Temperament, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize. He has written for numerous documentary films, including The Civil War, Baseball, and The West, and is currently at work on two books: Jazz: An Illustrated History and A Disposition to Be Rich.

Ken Burns, director and producer of Not for Ourselves Alone, has been making award-winning documentary films for over twenty years. He was director of the landmark PBS series The Civil War and Baseball and executive producer of The West. His work has received or been nominated for Emmy, Oscar, Grammy, and Academy Awards, among others. He is currently producing a series on the history of jazz.

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dy Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten.

Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complement

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Editorial
Alfred a Knopf
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0375405607
ISBN 13 
9780375405600
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  037570969X ISBN 13:  9780375709692
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001
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