Location
Looking for a great read, something engaging and informative?
Come to “Booked for Lunch” A History Reading Group
Discussing The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
Hosted by the Wilton Historical Society and Wilton League of Women Voters.
In a first for the Historical Society, Booked for Lunch will take place via Zoom!
All are welcome!
We are thrilled to be welcoming author Elaine Weiss, who will lead the discussion.
“It’s bracing to read Elaine Weiss’s stirring, definitive, and engrossing treatment of winning suffrage in America, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. Weiss brings a lucid, lively, journalistic tone to the story. Perhaps her greatest contribution is documenting the intricate, contentious element of racism that almost crippled the struggle. For that insight alone, The Woman’s Hour is compulsory reading.” – Jane Zimmerman, NPR
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.
The Woman’s Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.
Photo by Nina Subin
About Elaine Weiss:
Elaine Weiss is a Baltimore-based journalist and author, whose feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists, and her byline has appeared in many national publications, as well as in reports for National Public Radio. Her long-form writing garnered a Pushcart Prize “Editor’s Choice” award, and she is a proud MacDowell Colony Fellow.
Weiss’ most recent book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking/Penguin) has won critical acclaim from the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and The New Yorker, hailed as a “riveting, nail-biting political thriller” with powerful parallels to today’s political environment.
The Woman’s Hour was a GoodReads Readers’ Choice Award winner, short-listed for the 2019 Chautauqua Prize, and received the American Bar Association’s highest honor, the 2019 Silver Gavel Award.
Steven Speilberg’s Amblin production company is adapting the book for TV, with Hillary Rodham Clinton serving as Executive Producer.
Suggested contribution $10.00
Registration essential. By email: info [at] wiltonhistorical.org
After you register, you will receive a confirmation and Zoom session ID Code.
