| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4 | The History Cooperative

Jeanette Rankin: America's Conscience. By Norma Smith. Foreword by Joan Hoff. Introduction by Kathryn Anderson. (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2002. 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical essay, index. $17.95, paper.)
Jeanette Rankin is best remembered for two votes in the United States Congress: one against the United States entrance into World War I, and one against entrance into World War II. In this delightfully readable book we learn that Rankin served her country far longer than her well-known two congressional terms. Norma Smith has done an excellent job in chronicling Rankin's life from her country beginning in Montana to her final speeches in her nineties.	1
Smith met Rankin when they both received degrees from Montana State College in 1961; Smith with a master's in history and Rankin, an honorary doctorate. Perhaps fate also put them together again shortly afterwards in Georgia where they began years of interviews and conversations. These personal accounts augmented Smith's research. Unfortunately for history, Rankin's papers are scarce and scattered: in Montana, Georgia, and the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some of the papers were put in depositories early in her career only to be removed by Rankin so they would be available to graduate students. Smith was able to secure information from those who had had access to the original papers.	. . .

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