Ahead of the Curve, Washington Women Lead the Way

by John Hughes, Bob Young

Overview

Ahead of the Curve profiles 11 Washington women who have been blazing the trails since women in the Evergreen State gained the right to vote. From the suffragists of 1910 to the "sheroes" of today, women have been leading the way as judges, engineers, educators, scientists, politicians and reporters.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163444724
Publisher:	Legacy Washington
Publication date:	01/13/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	520,813
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

John C. Hughes is the chief historian for the Office of the Secretary of State. He retired as editor and publisher of The Daily World in Aberdeen in 2008 after a 42-year career in journalism that saw him win awards for reporting, photography, historical features, editorials and columns. An alumnus of the University of Puget Sound and the University of Maryland, he is a trustee of the Washington State Historical Society. Hughes is the author of 11 books on Northwest history, including On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana; Booth Who?, a biography of Governor Booth Gardner; Slade Gorton, A Half Century in Politics; Lillian Walker, Washington State Civil Rights Pioneer; Governor John Spellman: Politics Never Broke His Heart; Pressing On, the story of the family-owned Seattle Times and Wenatchee World. His latest books are “Un-sold,” a biography of former congresswoman Jolene Unsoeld; Washington Remembers, a collection of profiles of World War II veterans; The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea 65, and 1968: The Year that Rocked Washington. He is now working on a biography of Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen, D-Wash., one of the most formidable lawmakers in U.S. history.

Bob Young is a historian for the state of Washington and co-author of two books. He has lived in 10 states and one foreign country. He holds degrees from Boston University and Emerson College, where his thesis film won a student Emmy, presented with a peck by Loretta “Hot Lips” Swit. He spent 26 years as a full-time journalist, including 15 with The Seattle Times, where he played very modest parts in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Lakewood police massacre and the Oso landslide. He was also research director at Congress Watch in Washington, D.C., where he investigated the pharmaceutical industry’s political influence. He was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT in 2014-15. He has been a longtime volunteer at animal welfare organizations.