Woodrow Wilson : the light withdrawn /
Christopher Cox
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xvi, 615 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (some color) ;
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| Utgave | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Opplysninger | Part I: Long past due. Kindred causes -- Woodrows and Wilsons -- Georgia memories -- Carolina years -- Bittersweet at Princeton -- Old maids and peeping Toms -- Two women -- Aryan men -- 'Greatest since Seneca Falls' -- Part II: Governor and president. 'Shall I not accept?' -- 'The least part of it' -- 'Walking on air' -- The suffrage inaugural -- 'Women should not be kept waiting any longer' -- 'A conviction all my life' -- 'Not one step nearer' -- 'A towering rage' -- 'He kept us out of suffrage' -- 'We might as well lie down and die' -- Part III: Holding back the tide. 'Impossible' -- The 'firm hand of stern repression' -- 'Lock them up' -- 'You ought not to have the vote' -- 'Traitor' -- 'The blood be on your head' -- A dangerous man to cross -- Unshaken -- Terror -- 'Any direction fraught' -- Part IV: Victory and defeat. Death warrant -- Who will get the credit? -- The long fortnight -- Toujours de l'Audace -- 'Things to be done at once' -- 'The apex of my glory' -- Sex, race, and Paris -- Adulterating Anthony -- 'This tardy act of justice' -- 'The last thing to be brought about' -- Epilogue.. - "More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality and women's suffrage. The Wilson that emerges is a man superbly unsuited to the moment when he ascended to the presidency in 1912, as the struggle for women's voting rights in America reached the tipping point. The first southern Democrat to occupy the White House since the Civil War era brought with him to Washington like-minded men who quickly set to work segregating the federal government. Wilson's own sympathy for Jim Crow and states' rights animated his years-long hostility to the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, which promised universal suffrage backed by federal enforcement. Women demonstrating for voting rights found themselves demonized in government propaganda, beaten and starved while illegally imprisoned, and even confined to the insane asylum. When, in the twilight of his second term, two-thirds of Congress stood on the threshold of passing the Anthony Amendment, Wilson abruptly switched his position. But in sympathy with like-minded southern Democrats, he acquiesced in a "race rider" that would protect Jim Crow. The heroes responsible for the eventual success of the unadulterated Anthony Amendment are brought to life by Christopher Cox, an author steeped in the ways of Washington and political power. This is a brilliant, carefully researched work that puts you at the center of one of the greatest advances in the history of American democracy"--
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| Emner | Wilson, Woodrow, , 1856-1924 - Relations with women.
United States. ( 19th Amendment) - History. : Constitution. African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc. - History African Americans - Segregation - History Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 166801078X. - 9781668010785
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