title: The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
author:  Brooke Kroeger 
description: "Among the pleasures of Kroeger's carefully developed storyline is the view of how important political figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson came around to accepting the idea that women deserved the vote ... A vigorous, readable revisitation of the events of a century and more ago but with plenty of subtle lessons in the book for modern-day civil rights activists, too." -- <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>
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  # John Barleycorn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jack London
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California
  
  
  afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from
  
  
  the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of
  
  
  proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of
  
  
  California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several
  
  
  drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting
  
  
  it. Then I had ridden up through the vine-clad hills and rolling
  
  
  pastures of the ranch, and arrived at the farm-house in time for
  
  
  another drink and supper.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "How did you vote on the suffrage amendment?" Charmian asked.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  "I voted for it."
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  She uttered an exclamation of surprise. For, be it known, in my
  
  
  younger days, despite my ardent democracy, I had been opposed to
  
  
  woman suffrage. In my later and more tolerant years I had been