Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience

by Norma Smith

foreword by Joan Hoff with Introduction by Kathryn Anderson

published by Montana Historical Society Press

• Social worker, suffragist, first woman elected to the United States Congress, and a lifelong peace activist, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted ""No"" to United States involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice for change shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith.

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240 pages, 6 x 9 , 8 b/w photos, 1 illustrations, index, 28 softcovers per case, Paperback

softcover
ISBN 10: 0917298799
ISBN 13: 9780917298790
$19.95

RELEASE DATE
08/01/2002

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Jeannette Rankin lived her conscience, and she became America's conscience through her unflagging campaigns for children's protective legislation, women's rights, election reform, and most of all, peace. Her friend Norma Smith based this biography on interviews conducted with Rankin in the 1960's.