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Summary: To Paperback in 2 Weeks
Review: Better than No-doze. It ain't at Amazon# 1,000,000 for nothing.
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Summary: BRILLIANT BOOK...BRILLIANT WOMAN
Review: eleanor clift's latest book Founding Sisters is her best yet. it is not only informative and insightful, but also beautifully and eloquently written. i think it is important for women in this country to know our history and to honor those women who fiercely struggled, fought, and were in some cases even martyred so that our voice could someday be heard. for those who find ms. clift's book indolent and her research remiss, they should check again. if they are at all honest with themselves, they must admit that there were a lot of facts stated in this book that we (especially women) absolutely should have known, and because of our own complacent ignorance have never taken the time to explore. we need more women like eleanor clift to remind us of our history and give feminism a much needed resuscitation. this book defines the true meaning of girl power and sisterhood!
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Summary: BRILLIANT BOOK...BRILLIANT WOMAN
Review: eleanor clift's latest book Founding Sisters is her best yet. it is not only informative and insightful, but also beautifully and eloquently written. i think it is important for women in this country to know our history and to honor those women who fiercely struggled, fought, and were in some cases even martyred so that our voice could someday be heard. for those who find ms. clift's book indolent and her research remiss, they should check again. if they are at all honest with themselves, they must admit that there were a lot of facts stated in this book that we (especially women) absolutely should have known, and because of our own complacent ignorance have never taken the time to explore. we need more women like eleanor clift to remind us of our history and give feminism a much needed resuscitation. this book defines the true meaning of girl power and sisterhood!
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Summary: Clift needs to do more "Truth" checking before publishing
Review: I am surprised to see the "Ain't I a Woman" speech attributed to Sojourner Truth--why did Eleanor Clift not read the definitive biography of Truth, written by Nell Irvin Painter? We now know that Sojourner Truth did NOT utter those words attributed to her--this is clearly documented in Nell Irvin Painter's 1997 book "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol." According to Shirley J. Yee, writing in the Journal of Women's History, (Spring 1998): "Women's historians have routinely cited this [A'rnt I A Woman] speech from 'The History of Woman Suffrage,' published in 1881 and edited by white suffrage advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthoney, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. White feminist Frances Dana Gage had written about the appearance of Truth at the convention. Entitled 'Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage,' her contribution appeared two years before Truth's death in 1883." Yee also notes: "After meticulous research into the available printed documents of the period, [Nell Irvin] Painter has found no evidence to corroborate Gage's 'report' of the speech, particularly from newspapers that likely would have reported such a momentous and controversial event as Gage supposedly memorialized. The absence of such evidence casts doubt upon whether Truth actually gave the speech and raises the distinct possibility that Gage contrived it." What kind of research did Clift do, if any, to determine the veracity of this speech?
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Summary: Ladies, if you can't get real, then maybe you'll not vote.
Review: No, we all do not know that Sojourner Truth never gave that speech.
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Summary: great little book
Review: What a wonderful book, and by my favorite political commentator. I saw her on the Early Show and she made the book sound so interesting I had to run out and get it. It didn't disappoint. While maybe not as good as Ellis' Founding Brothers, it was nonetheless illuminating, engaging and enriching. How the people below can condemn it on one mistake and by one line obviously written before the book was even out, is just wrong.
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