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Book Synopsis In February 1913 young firebrand activist General Rosalie Gardiner Jones defied convention and the doubts of better-known suffragists such as Alice Paul, Jane Addams, and Carrie Chapman Catt to muster an unprecedented equal rights army. Jones and Colonel Ida Craft marched 250 miles at the head of their all-volunteer platoon, advancing from New York City to Washington, DC in the dead of winter, in what was believed to be the longest dedicated women''s rights march in American history. Along the way their band of protestors overcame violence, intimidation, and bigotry, their every step documented by journalist-embeds who followed the self-styled army down far-flung rural roads and into busy urban centers bristling with admiration and enmity. At march''s end in Washington, more than 100,000 spectators cheered and jeered Rosalie''s army in a reception said to rival a president''s inauguration.
This first-ever book-length biography details Jones''s indomitable and original br
