| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman. By James J. Lopach and Jean A. Luckowski. (Boulder: University of Colorado, 2005. xi + 317 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

A reader might imagine the following examination question for an advanced degree in history: "Although the ideology of woman suffrage was anchored in the East, its political success was in the West. Montana voters carried the idea of woman suffrage one step further and elected Jeanette Rankin as the first woman to the House of Representatives in 1917—three years before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Discuss." The exam writer might, like other Rankin biographers, embrace interpretations that romanticize or mythologize Rankin's life and politics. Or, the candidate might, like Lopach and Luckowski, grapple with the nitty-gritty of Rankin's political career.

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