Not for Ourselves Alone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History, biography, and women’s issues
- Time of Work: 1815-1920
- Setting: Mainly New York and the eastern United States, but also Kansas and the West
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Politics, Abolitionists, Nineteenth century, New York City, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Political conventions
- Locales: New York, Kansas, East (U.S.), West (U.S.)
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony is a lavishly illustrated accompaniment to the film by the United States’ premiere documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Geoffrey Ward, author and screenwriter, has worked previously with Burns and the team at Florentine Films on the miniseries The Civil War and Baseball. It has been said that more Americans get their history from Ken Burns than from any other source, and that forty million Americans have watched The Civil War. If that is so, then readers should be glad about the...
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