| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Seattle's Women Teachers of the Interwar Years: Shapers of a Livable City. By Doris Hinson Pieroth. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xii + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.)

In this book we are presented with an engaging and in-depth collective portrait of the hundreds of women who taught in this Pacific Coast city during the 1920s and 1930s. Pieroth offers an unapologetic history of a group of women whom she found extraordinary in their dedication, length of service, impact upon a developing urban center, and community service. Her main argument, that this generation of teachers "made modern Seattle the livable place that it remained through the twentieth century," detracts from the book's strengths as a collective social portrait (p. vii). As an historical exercise, it is difficult to prove such an assertion. Despite this weakness, the book fills a lacuna in the historical scholarship through its focus on the years after Progressivism and prior to World War II.

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