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Elaine Weiss

Elaine Weiss Biography

Elaine Elaine holds a graduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University. She is an award-winning journalist and writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor, as well as in reports and documentaries for National Public Radio and Voice of America. A MacDowell Colony Fellow and Pushcart Prize Editor's Choice honoree, she is also the author of Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army in the Great War

Elaine lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband, Julian Krolik, a professor of astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University; they have two grown children. When not working at her desk, she can be found paddling her kayak on the Chesapeake Bay. And she votes in every election.

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Elaine Weiss discusses The Woman's Hour, the story of how American women won the right to vote, and its relevancy in today's political environment.

You handed the manuscript in the day before the presidential election—a day you thought the first woman would be elected President of the United States. Have your goals for the book changed given the outcome of the election?

Yes, I submitted The Woman's Hour manuscript on the Monday before Election Day 2016, fully expecting that the book would come out in the first term of the first American woman president. How fitting. I pushed the SEND button and the manuscript flew through the ether to the desks of my editor and my agent in NYC. "Hooray. Great timing" they replied. Well. It was great timing—but in a wholly different way than we anticipated. The Woman's Hour is timely in this strange political and cultural moment, when many Americans are standing up and loudly protesting—perhaps for the first time in their lives—storming the legislative halls, even taking to the streets, in opposition to government policies. Forced to protect rights they assumed they'd already won.

This is a book about challenging—resisting—regressive government policies. It's about grassroots activists working for change, fighting inequality, facing down powerful forces—political, corporate, and ...

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    by Mary Beard

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    Clara Bingham is an award winning journalist and author. She is a former Newsweek White House correspondent, and the author (with Laura Leedy Gansler) of Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law (... (more)

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