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The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S.



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Brooke Kroeger

I'm a journalist, a professor of journalism at NYU, and the author of five books, the most recent of which is The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. It launches Sept. 1. My website with full details is http://brookekroeger.com. See the 90-second trailer attached here and read up at http://thesuffragents.com



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