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Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States
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by A. Louise Staman
Sales Rank: 716240
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$9.08
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 266 pages
Published by: Tiger Iron PressEdition: 1st Edition November 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0978726316
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0978726317
Product Description
WINNER in the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2007 -- Gold Medalist, Best Regional Non-Fiction, Southeast. WINNER in the prestigious 2007 Eric Hoffer Award for Books (formerly The Writers Notes Book Award). Loosening Corsets has placed as First Runner-Up in the category: Best New Writing, Reference.
NOMINATED for the Georgia Book of the Year Award.
REVIEW BY THE ERIC HOFFER PANEL OF JUDGES: "In 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first female U.S. Senator for the term of only one day. This accomplishment might seem insignificant if it were not for Felton's long and active involvement in social reform and ultimately women's suffrage. Born into the destruction of the plantation south, Felton's life parallels the reformation of Georgia from the ashes. Staman is an engaging biographer and does well to show us the landscape as well as Felton's intriguing course of events. You'll finish this book remembering that there is a seat at the table for everyone, if we strive hard enough and demand the very best of ourselves."
Although the book is nonfiction, the life of Rebecca Latimer Felton reads like a novel, revealing the nearly forgotten story of one of the most remarkable lady in history. A Georgian born before the Civil War, Felton became the first lady Senator of the United States in 1922, at age 87. A tireless crusader, her attempts at political and civil reform are set against the backdrop of a state in violent chaos. Sherman's matches, Reconstruction's graft, one-party corruption, the KKK, lynchers, hallelujah evangelicals, chain-gang convicts, the sneering H.L. Mencken, "unsexed" suffragists, WCTU crusaders, and something possibly worse than anything else - a tiny insect called the boll weevil - all strut or crawl or sweep across the pages of this work.
Illustrated, indexed, endnotes, 266 pages.
Reader Reviews
Loosening Corsets is the amazing true story of one Rebecca Latimer Felton, a woman who fought for women's rights in the state of Georgia for more than sixty years and became - at the age of eighty seven - the first woman senator of the United States. Rebecca's courageous and relentless battle against prevailing repression and injustice make this book a page-turner of a different kind - compelling and powerful.
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