(Ebook) The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote (Excelsior Editions) by Brooke Kroeger ISBN 9781438466293, 1438466293

(Ebook) The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote (Excelsior Editions) by Brooke Kroeger ISBN 9781438466293, 1438466293

Gold Medalist 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category

Finalist – 2018 Sally & Morris Lasky Prize, presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College

“…[a] breezy account … prodigiously researched.” — New York Times

The story of how & why a group of prominent & influential men in New York City & beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote 

The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York’s most powerful men formed the Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League & the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement’s female leadership, & why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s strategic decision to accept their organized help & then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace.

Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, & George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, & the legislative & executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, & a largely hostile press to support the women’s demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.