New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. 1944. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and spine; pp. 495, frontispiece and illustrations; very good. Provenance: signed to front pastedown by Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Gray Peck. From the library of George V. Denny, Jr. (1899-1959), broadcaster and host of ā Americaā s Town Meeting of the Air.ā First edition. This is the biography of one of the most important figures in the Amerian women's suffrage movement. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the head of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1900. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Cattā s ā Winning Planā and which sought passage of a federal suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. She cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators and her lifeā s work culminated in 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the vote. According to NAW, ā To Mrs. Catt more than any other single figure beside Susan B. Anthony, American women owe their right to vote.ā (NAW I, pp. 309-313. Wheeler, One Woman, One Vote, pp. 295- 315). Seller Inventory # 2081158

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Title: Carrie Chapman Catt. A Biography.

Publication Date: 1944

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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