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"With the approach of the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, this book offers an important aid to understanding how women won the right to vote and the extensive debt we owe to those who fought for it for seventy years. Written by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler, two leaders of the movement, this landmark work reveals the inside story, tracing the struggle for women's suffrage from 1848 to 1922. They argue that there was not a lack of public sentiment supporting woman suffrage, rather that certain interests in the American political system controlled public sentiment and deflected information in order to delay the passage of the amendment that would give women the right to vote. They note that twenty-six other countries gave women the right to vote before the United States and offer their own insights as to why this might have been the case"--