| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. By Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv, 266 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-19-512215-1.)

Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith have written a seamless, well-organized, and thoroughly researched political biography of Minnie Fisher Cunningham (MFC), the indefatigable Texas suffragist, reformer, and politician whose life and work extended from the New South era through John F. Kennedy's presidency. Cunningham's life is a remarkable story, and McArthur and Smith tell us about Cunningham with remarkable skill. With this work, they join an impressive group of historians—Ellen DuBois, Susan Ware, Lois Scharf, Joan Jensen, and Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle, just to mention a few—who have rescued the history of woman suffrage and women's political activism before second-wave feminism from antiquarian cuteness and assumed irrelevance.

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