Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life

"This deft biography . . . firmly roots Stanton . . . in the complex swell of 19th century middle-class reform, and reveals her thornier, less egalitarian side." -The New Yorker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas-that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote-are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation's promise of radical individualism to women.

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