And where is the full scale (but not *too* long, if you please) biography of Alice Paul? I don't think I'm alone in considering her to be the most interesting personality that the suffrage movement produced. Her genius for publicity alone would make her fascinating.
I thought and hoped that book was the recently published "Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign" by Adams and Keene, but the scope is rather narrowly focused on her suffrage work, and it is deadly dull besides. (Someday with luck and added diligence I *will* finish reading it.)
So we have this odd situation: (A) Carrie Catt has three good to very good adult level books about her, and three kid bios as well, but no *movie*, whereas (B) Alice Paul has no complete book-form treatment of her life, but has a widely seen HBO "feature film" about her, Iron Jawed Angels. (While that vid-flick is ludicrous in many ways, IJA is probably ultimately worthwhile because of its harrowing--and I believe pretty accurate--portrayal of the unjust imprisonment, mistreatment, force feeding, etc. of the militant suffragists.)
Come on woman/woman-squared historians, can't you give Alice her due?
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