Book Event with Author Kimberly Hamlin: Free Thinker: The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote

Book Event with Author Kimberly Hamlin: Free Thinker: The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote

The LWV of the Spokane Area invites all League members and other interested folks to join them for a virtual book club event with LWVUS board member Kimberly A. Hamlin.

Our discussion of the book will focus primarily on Gardner’s work as a lobbyist on behalf of the 19th Amendment.  

• What were her strengths and weaknesses? 
• What difference did it make that she was more than 60 when she began this work?
• How did factionalism within the suffrage movement move the debate?
• How might this history inform our present political climate?
• What impact did Gardner’s work have on the League’s nonpartisan stance?
• What lessons about lobbying might one learn?

The book is widely available new and used in hardback, paperback and as an eBook.   The author's website has some suggestions for buying the book:  https://www.kimberlyhamlin.com.

About the Author

A member of the League of Women Voters of Cincinnati Area (LWVCA), Kimberly is a historian who specializes in the US women’s rights movement. Her most recent book, Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener (2020), profiles the suffragist credited with securing congressional passage of the 19th Amendment. Hamlin is an award-winning scholar, teacher, and public speaker who regularly contributes to the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and other media. She is the James and Beth Lewis professor of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and she lives with her family in Cincinnati.

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