Winning the earthquake : how Jeannette Rankin defied all odds to become the first woman in Congress /
"Born on a Montana ranch in 1880, Jeannette Rankin knew how to ride a horse, make a fire, and read the sky for weather. But, most of all, she knew how to talk to people and unite them around a shared vision for America. It was this rare skill that led her to become the first woman ever elected...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2025.
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| Edition: | First Edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Birth
- Yearling
- Breakdown
- From a hill in San Francisco
- Like a diamond
- Homecoming
- From sea to shining sea
- Showdown in Big Sky Country
- Getting there
- The vote
- Running up that hill
- We the people
- Democracy in America
- The hour of our deliverance
- War
- Solidarity forever
- Summer of crisis
- When the fall is all that's left
- After the gates of hell have closed, the ground still smolders
- When the waters roll back
- After the war, before the war
- Not dark yet
- The rhyme of history
- The world is a house on fire
- Zero
- After the end of the world
- America, America
- Epilogue.