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my life, the professors and mentors Bill Haltom / to our three children, she has helped Hanover. My biggest challenge in writ-
who had a great impact, were men. A Why Can’t Mother Vote? literally thousands of young women ing the story was that he passed away
great lesson for young girls is that men Bill Haltom is a lawyer, editor, news- to plan and pursue meaningful lives. nearly 50 years ago, leaving no chil-
aren’t the enemy, and we should all paper columnist and author. During his For 17 years she was a juvenile-court dren, so I had few people to interview
stop making meaningless gender dis- 40-year legal career, he served as Pres- judge, where she encountered many about his incredible life. I am indebted
Janice Kaplan / tinctions. Role models and inspiration ident of the Tennessee Bar Association young women who had babies as teen- to Rabbi Micah Greenstein and Temple
The Genius of Women can come in many forms. If someone and the Memphis Bar Association. He agers. She resolved she would help Israel in Memphis for giving me access
Janice Kaplan is a novelist, maga- cares about your work and believes in is an award-winning columnist for USA these women in family planning and to Joe Hanover’s papers preserved in
zine editor and television producer. you, it doesn’t matter if it’s a man or Today and is the author of eight books. planning their own lives. After retiring the temple’s library.
From 2007-2010, Kaplan served as woman. His latest book, Why Can’t Mother from the bench in 2010, she created What is it that you hope readers
editor-in-chief of Parade magazine, What was your main inspiration, Vote?, is the story of Joe Hanover, a the Step Ahead Foundation, which of- will take away from your book?
a Sunday newspaper supplement that and what was your biggest challenge, fers life-planning classes, and over the I hope readers understand from
has a circulation of 32 million. She is in writing this book? past few years has awarded more than reading my book that there remains
also the author of 14 books and hosts In writing The Genius of Women, I $1 million in scholarships to young unfinished business in our democracy.
a podcast centered around gratitude. wanted to answer the question of how women. The fight for the vote is still ongoing,
In her newest book, The Genius of it is that despite all of the obstacles in What was your main inspiration, 100 years after the ratification of the
Women, Kaplan asks and answers the their way, some women in every gen- and what was your biggest challenge, Nineteenth Amendment. Joe Hanover
question: If we tell girls that they can eration have managed to soar so high in writing this book? remains the role model of how we
be anything, why do 90% of Ameri- and achieve so much. I take readers on My inspiration for Why Can’t Americans should continue to work to
cans believe that geniuses are almost my own journey of discovering some Mother Vote? were my friends Paula make democracy real.
always men? Kaplan sets out to de- amazing women from the past – like Casey and Jocie (aka Jocelyn) Wurz- Tickets are $10 per household per
termine why the extraordinary work composer Fanny Mendelssohn and nu- burg. They are 21 century suffragists event or $18 for the three events. For
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as getting to know extraordinary wom- courageous fight for women’s suffrage For more information on the People of
en doing groundbreaking work right over the years. I have supported their the Book series of events, please con-
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some ideas and approaches to let their The most influential woman in my
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