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American Follies
Paperback
Series: American Novels
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781942658481
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: Jul 7 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
A young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum's circus to rescue her infant from the KKK
In the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, heroes of America's woman suffrage movement, and her friendship with the diminutive Margaret, one of P. T. Barnum's circus eccentrics. When her infant son is kidnapped by the Klan, Ellen, Margaret, and the two formidable suffragists travel aboard Barnum's train from New York to Memphis to rescue the baby from certain death at the fiery cross.
A savage yet farcical tale, American Follies explores the roots of the women's rights movement, its relationship to the fight for racial justice, and its reverberations in the politics of today.
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