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

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037570969X ISBN 13: 9780375709692

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

Synopsis

The authors of The Civil War focus on the lives of two of the pioneers in the women's rights movement, examining their diverse backgrounds, beliefs, activism, and lasting influence on American history. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Geoffrey C. Ward is the author of 11 books and has written for numerous documentary films. He lives in New York City.

Ken Burns, founder of Florentine Films, is a director, producer, and writer who has been making documentaries for more than 15 years. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

From the Inside Flap:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 037570969X
• ISBN 13: 9780375709692
• Binding: Paperback