The Hello Girls: Americas First Women Soldiers
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1541456076 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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. An Audie Award and AudioFile Earphones Award winner, she has recorded many audiobooks. Elizabeth Cobbs is Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.Susan Ericksen lives on the East Coast, where she performs on stage and on television
"In the crisply written The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers, Elizabeth Cobbs details exactly what was asked of these women during the war, and reveals, with an authoritative, dispassionate, this-was-some-self-evident-nonsense lucidity, the dismaying extent to which their country failed them when it was over." ---NPR
"Excellent account of history from women's perspective" according to M E Gonsalves. Very well written. Keeps the reader's interest. Get to know (and appreciate) the Hello Girls & what they fought for during WWI and beyond. Would recommend this book to historians, archivists, history buffs, and classrooms.. For Lovers of History and Politics TruthSeeker I learned so much about events and issues I only vaguely understood. I wish more history were as compelling to read as this story of an amazing group of women.. Easy read This book is an easy read, a good summary of story of how women came to serve in the Army's Signal Corps during WWI. It gives a little background on the lives of some of the women who served in the Signal Corps, the challenges they faced both from family/society at large and from the army in particular as they faced gender stereotypes, political resistance, and sexism--their skills were needed, but they were the last thing politicians and the army w
While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Woodrow Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these competent and courageous young women swore the Army oath. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers welcomed, resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. When the operators sailed home, the army unexpectedly dismissed them without veterans' benefits. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. In 1918, the U.S. The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920. Army. They began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. With the help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a crusading Seattle attorney, they triumphed over the U.S. General John Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, demanded female "wire experts" when he discovered that inexperienced doughboys wer