The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage

Yellin and Sherman bring to life the struggle of suffragists to earn women the right to vote which culminated with the final vote needed for ratification in the Tennessee legislature.The Perfect 36 gives voice to those who were for and against the right of women to vote with a richly illustrated volume. The authors provide a great deal of writings of those who were involved in this important movement along with pictures and cartoons to give a vivid sense of what it was like to win enfranchisement.

Carol Lynn Yellin, a former Associate Editor of Reader's Digest and a Special Projects Editor of Reader's Digest Condensed Books, is a native Oklahoman with degrees in History and Journalism from Northwestern University. She is the co-author of the books: Bound for Freedom about resistance to school integration, and The Forgotten Woman, the story of Kasturba Ghandi, wife of Mahatma Ghandi. Her articles have appeared in Harpers, Vogue, Redbook, and American Heritage.

Dr. Janann Sherman, assistant professor of History at the University of Memphis, holds a P.h.D in American History from Rutgers University. She is the author of the forthcoming No Place for a Woman: The Life and Times of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, and contributing author to The Home-Front War: World War II and American Society; Gender and Policymaking: Studies of Women in Office; The Impact of Women on American Politics; The Journal of Military History and The Oxford Companion to United States History.