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Both a page-turning drama and an inspiration for every reader — Hillary Rodham Clinton The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have approved the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote; one last state–Tennessee–is needed for women s voting rights to be the law of the land. The suffragists face vicious opposition from politicians, clergy, corporations, and racists who don t want black women voting. And then there are the Antis –women who oppose their own enfranchisement, fearing suffrage will bring about the nation s moral collapse. And in one hot summer, they all converge for a confrontation, replete with booze and blackmail, betrayal and courage. Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, The Woman s Hour is the gripping story of how America s women won their own freedom, and the opening campaign in the great twentieth-century battles for civil rights.