Jean H Baker

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1) Margaret Sanger: a life of passion

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Baker, Jean H

Language

English

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In this lively new biography, an historian argues convincingly that Margaret Sanger deserves the vaunted place in feminist history she once held. Baker's nuanced account of Sanger's life emphasizes the passion of her convictions.

2) Sisters: the lives of America's suffragists

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Baker, Jean H

Language

English

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They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women...

3) Mary Todd Lincoln: a biography

Author

Baker, Jean H

Language

English

4) James Buchanan

Author

Baker, Jean H

Series

American presidents series)

Publisher

Times Books

Pub. Date

2004

Language

English

5) Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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Baker, Jean H

Language

English

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An English emigre who became America's first professional architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe put his stamp on the built landscape of the new republic. Latrobe contributed to such iconic structures as the south wing of the US Capitol building, the White House, and the Navy Yard. He created some of the early republic's greatest neoclassical interiors, including the Statuary Hall. As a young man, Latrobe was apprenticed to both a leading architect and...