ISBN10: 0375405607, ISBN13: 9780375405600, [publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York] Hardcover First Edition Over-sized hardbound (quarto). First Edition stated. AS NEW. No wear to the binding. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket shows no wear, no sun fading.
[Rockford, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1999. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x0x10. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by Ken Burns on Susan B. Anthony House bookplate adhered to half-title page. Top edge of rear jacket panel bumped. Related materials laid in. 1999 Large Hardcover. xi, 240 pp. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complemented each other's strengths perfectly. Stanton was a gifted writer and radical thinker, full of fervor and radical ideas but pinned down by her reponsibilities as ...