Transcript
  • 00:01    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:06    |    
    Introduction by Carroll Ríos de Rodríguez
    • Quotes n , John Blundell
    • Modern mothers and wives
    • Ladies for liberty
    • Quotes Nicole K. Neily
    • Quotes n , Isabel Paterson
    • Author's intention
    • John Blundell's intellectual career
    • Guatemalan influential women
  • 07:49    |    
    John Blundell on his book
    • Quotes n John Blundell
    • Movie: n (2011)
    • Great American women
    • Selection process
      • Contribution completed
      • Pro liberty features
      • Remarkable achievements
      • Powerful stories
      • Least overlap possible
  • 11:48    |    
    Individual chapters
    • Mercy Otis Warren
    • Quotes James Otis
    • Martha Washington
    • Abigail Adams
    • Revolutionary women
    • Grimké sisters
    • Sojourner Truth
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    • Women's voting right in the United States
    • Harriet Tubman
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Quotes n , Harriet Beecher Stowe
    • Bina West Miller
    • Madam C. J. Walker
    • Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane
    • Quotes n , Rose Wilder Lane
    • Isabel Mary Paterson
    • Lila Acheson Wallace
    • Quotes
    • Vivien Kellems
    • Tax protestor
    • Taylor Caldwell
    • Quotes n , Taylor Caldwell
    • Ayn Rand
    • Rose Director Friedman
    • Jane Jacobs
    • Quotes n , Jane Jacobs
    • Dorian Fisher
  • 40:19    |    
    Lessons learned from these women
    • Temperance
    • Women's property rights in the 19th century
    • Boarding education
    • Prevalence of upstate New Yorkers
    • Genealogical connections
    • Violence
    • Liberal principles
    • Strategic women
    • Serendipity
    • Raw courage and determination
  • 48:00    |    
    Future ladies for liberty
  • 48:41    |    
    Question and answer period
    • Neutral perspective about the movie
    • Different character roles
  • 54:42    |    
    Final credits


Presentation of the Book «Ladies for Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History»

New Media  | 22 de marzo de 2012  | Vistas: 61

John Blundell presents his latest book, Ladies for Liberty: Women Who Made a Difference in American History. Following his literary focus, he speaks about the circumstances and facts that led him to research and elaborate on his findings. He details the reasons that compelled him to choose the women on his publication and makes a brief explanation of their life, work, and mainly their endeavor for freedom, each one performed during their lifetime. He also comments on the features and values these women had, which ultimately brought them to be influential in the development of American society, within their different historical political, economic, and social context. Finally, he offers his point of view on the recent biographical movie that represents Margaret Thatcher’s life.




Conferencista

John Blundell (1952-2014) was Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute of…