| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform. By Sharon Hartman Strom. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $79.50, ISBN 1-56639-818-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-56639-819-3.)

Sharon Hartman Strom's well-crafted book about Florence Luscomb chronicles the career of a Boston activist who worked for seven decades on woman suffrage, industrial unionism, civil liberties, civil rights, and international peace. This is at once Luscomb's biography and Strom's autobiography: Strom began her project in the early 1970s just as the field of women's history was emerging. She recounts how, as a young historian, she came to know Luscomb and drew inspiration from the elder activist, sharing with her early draft chapters of the biography. Strom considered Luscomb her "adopted foremother," but she did not let her admiration for her subject cloud her historical judgment. This is a solid biography based on oral history interviews and manuscript collections. . . .

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