Susan B. Anthony

In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, a Susan B. Anthony biography for young readers, award-winning author Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette.

Susan B. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood to be white and male. Women were expected to stay out of public life and debates.

As Anthony saw the situation, "Women's subsistence is in the hands of men, and most arbitrarily and unjustly does he exercise his consequent power." She began her public career as a radical abolitionist, and after the Civil War, she became an international figurehead of the women's suffrage movement. The book includes archival images as well as selections of Anthony's writing, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

The Making of America series:
Alexander Hamilton (#1)
Andrew Jackson (#2)
Abraham Lincoln (#3)
Susan B. Anthony (#4)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (#5)
Thurgood Marshall (#6)


Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781419734014
Age: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.4
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 516672 / Susan B. Anthony


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2019
Booklist 02/15/2019 pg. 40
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2019
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Teri Kanefield is a lawyer and the author of The Girl from the Tar Paper School, The Extraordinary Suzy Wright, The Making of America series, and more. She lives in San Luis Obispo, California.