My youngest daughter (7 yrs old) needed to do a biography on a famous woman for school and chose Susan B. Anthony. I must admit I didn't know very much about her other than she was the leader of the sufferage movement.

I looked on Amazon and chose this book because of the reviews. The book is specatular. It is a collection of her speeches with connective writing from the writer providing historical perspective.

The combination of Ms. Anthony's own words with the understanding of women's position in society at the time made for a very powerful book. The first chapter made the most impact on my daughter which begins with the facts about women in those days.

I believe this is a book that needs to be in everyone's library.

A complete, entertaining, informative, and poignant tribute to one of America's most self-sacrificing and spunky heroines. Full of quotes that make you want to laugh, cry, and stand up on a soapbox. Its best quality is the wide range of appeal: HERstory experts can find in-depth quptes and minute details, both women and men will be inspired by this courageous woman. Sherr does an excellent job of compiling the quote so that they flow almost by themselves, and fills in the gaps when necessary. After reading the book, you will truly believe that "Failure is impossible!"

This is absolutely one of my favorite historical biographies. This book really makes real what an influential person Susan B. Anthony was in her own day, and who she really was. The in-depth direct quoting from writings of the time and the extensive documentation together present a strong case. After reading this book, it's shocking to me that someone this important in our history would need a major struggle to have her statue drug out of the basement into the light of the Capitol Rotunda.

I found the book very inspiring, because Ms Anthony devoted her life to what must have seemed to most people at the time to be a hopeless cause: women's suffrage. She constantly had to pitch her case to those who could grant suffrage; those who one might think would be least sympathetic: men. Her dedication to her cause and her success in making progress is a valuable lesson to anyone faced with a seemingly impossible task.

I cannot thank Ms Sherr enough for this wonderful book, and beg her to continue applying her talents to fill in our women's history gaps

This book is an excellent account of one of women's greatest women. It may have been written for a younger audience, but its simplicity makes it all the more intriguing. Her friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton is so powerful, and their struggle makes what they fought to win so much more appreciated. "Failure Is Impossible: The Story of Susan B. Anthony," should be used as required school reading.

I enjoy Ms. Bohannon's writing. She is an easy author to follow and can comprehend easily. Her writing was very informative and so interesting that you just did not want to put the book down. Her subject Susan B. Anthony was expressed so well and with thoroughness. I think the book was done so well that it should be considered to become a movie. I know I would thoroughly enjoy a movie about our heritage and how much effort some women put into making women's life today so much easier and better. Lisa was able to bring all of this out, the dedication these women had and never gave up. I truly enjoyed the portraits and how Lisa was able to express something so well written about each person in the book. She is truly a wonderful writer and I cannot wait until her next book comes out. I have her first book and I was so excited that she wrote another book. Thank you Lisa for such a knowledge that you have given to us, and how much we appreciate your telling the story. I truly enjoyed this book. Carol Nipper

It was 1998, the 150th anniversary of the first Women's Rights Convention, and it was difficult, if not impossible, to purchase a biography on the Mother of us all, Susan B. Anthony. What better way to commemorate the anniversary than to put SBA's first biography back in print. The publisher, Ayer, would re-print this 3 volume set if they received 50 orders. So I found 50 people and it's now available. "Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" is fascinating and so alive - I feel like I'm in the attic with Ayer and Anthony writing it. Many thanks to amazon.com for liberating the order process and providing access to this wonderful primary source.

One doesn't have to be a sports enthusiast to benefit from Prof. Brownell's book. It is a unique approach in teaching Chinese society. I had the honor of being one of her students at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in one of her Chinese society classes and I have taken many other classes not taught by her and I must say that her book has given me more insight in the cultural structure of the norms, beliefs and politics than I have ever gotten from any other college text. I also recommend this book for readers who aren't studying anthropology. It is just facinating to read about her adventures being an American college student taking part of the nation's equivalent to the Olympic Games in Beijing while studying abroad in Communist China.

This book fills a glaring need in history books. Not many people know more about Susan B. Anthony than she was one the dollar coin. This book corrects that oversight, and then some. Not only does the book give a balanced and well thought out look at Anthony and Stanton, the reader is also introduced to many, many other women who worked so hard for women rights.
I especially liked that the book didn't shy away from some of these women's more controversial stands, such as taking on the black person's cause.
All in all, a very good book.

This book provides insight and history on the struggle that women went through to get the right to vote. It includes all kinds of interesting background and perspectives. It was a real eye opener for me and I'm giving it as a gift to all the young women I know.

This book was an eye opener for me. Every woman should read this book to understand the fight for our right to vote. These women devoted their lives to something they knew they would never even see in their live time! Its a story of courage and strength. It's makes one feel proud to be a woman.

"Learning about Fairness from the Life of Susan B. Anthony" is A Character Building Book written by Kiki Mosher. This brief biography for younger readers examines the idea of fairness in the life of a woman who was well known for her life long efforts to secure the right to vote for women. However, Mosher makes it clear that Anthony was interested in fairness and equality as it applied to not only gender but race as well. This book is illustrated with full page historic photographs and engravings, only a few of which are actually of Anthony. The facing page contains a paragraph of simple text detailing incidents from Anthony's life and relating them to the idea of fairness. Other titles in this series teach children dedication from the life of Frederick Douglass, compassion with Florence Nightengale, honesty from Abraham Lincoln, leadership from George Washington, and bravery from the life of Harriet Tubman. I like the idea that biographies can teach students specific lessons, whether in regards to character or some other concern.

This book is detailed in many ways. if they tell you a small part of her actions he goes in detail to make you feel you were there. If you are doing a project on Susan or just want to know about her struggles and courage for us women i recommend you to read this book.

The place in history for Susan B. Anthony has been established, and younger classes are now discovering her contributions to the struggle for women's rights. This entry in the COMPASS POINT EARLY BIOGRAPHIES series has a reading level of 2.8, which seems perfect for the information presented. The book is well illustrated, and includes a glossary and index, as well as other resources to investigate.

The Treasury Department announced that it was stopping production of the latest dollar coin, the little thick gold one with Sacagawea on it, which reminds some of us of the previous dollar coin, the not quite round Susan B. Anthony dollar that debuted in 1979. I always thought there was an important similarity between Anthony's fight for women's rights and the failed dollar that bore her image: both were good ideas whose time has not yet come. You would think that the practicality of the silver dollar would be clear every time people try to smooth out a paper dollar to use in a vending machine; one pound coins work just great in Britain. But the American people are stubborn about the status quo, which Anthony discovered throughout her life as she fought for equality, not just between the sexes but in terms of races as well. This juvenile biography by Lucile Davis tells young readers about how Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked together for 51 years trying to achieve their goal. In 1872 Anthony was arrested by trying to vote, but it was not until 1920, fourteen years after Anthony's death, that the 19th Amendment was finally adopted providing for woman suffrage. However, because of her life long effort it was still Anthony's name that was associated with that amendment. Young readers are confronted with a life devoted to an important struggle for over half a century that does not succeed until after the subject of the biography has died, which I would consider an atypical but worthwhile example of a life well led. Davis covers all of the key details from Anthony's life and the back of the book includes some choice quotes by Anthony, a list of important dates in her life, a glossary, short bibliography, useful addresses and internet sites, and an index. Other similar titles in the Photo-Illustrated Biographies series are devoted to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Amelia Bloomer.