Now scheduling a one week tour for Far Beyond Woman Suffrage by David McCracken
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The Prices of the Vote
Book One
David McCracken
Genre: Alternative History
Date of Publication: 8/25/21
ISBN: 979-8464929616
ASIN: B09DPSTN35
Number of pages: 104
Word Count: 32,514
Cover Artist: PixelStudio
Tagline: “It isn’t just about women in long skirts finally voting!”
Book Description:
It isn’t just about women in long skirts finally voting. The racists and the rich know that, and the politicians worry.
Mercy Martin has an inside view as the battle for woman suffrage nears a climax, but she encounters many puzzles.
So many women and Southern states oppose votes for women.
So many people are afraid it would bring on free love, abandonment of family, economic catastrophe, or communism.
So many suffragists are willing to abandon black women voters.
From an innocent teen to a young adult, Mercy has a central role in the campaign. She advances from confinement in a suffragist jail cell to the national campaign for the suffrage amendment. She campaigns around Tennessee, ending at the capitol for the explosive climax in the last state that might ratify the amendment and grant the vote to women.
Why should something so clearly right be so hard, and why were some bitter compromises made? Mercy is right in the middle, relied on by key players. Along the way, she acquires a husband, a baby, and better parents than she was born with.
This is an intimate view via alternative historical fiction, as accurate as it can be and as thoughtful and moving as it must be. In this first novella of a series, Mercy jumps into the campaign for woman suffrage and prepares for a vital role in the coming decades. She’ll continue on into the wider civil rights struggle growing out of woman suffrage.
David McCracken became a political activist when the Supreme Court ruled
against school segregation. Fellow students joined him in urging the school
board in Winchester, KY, to integrate immediately. He campaigned for a
Democratic governor and joined the ACLU before he graduated from the University
of Kentucky. After debating at U.K., he got a degree in economics and a job
with the U.S. Department of Commerce.
When his daughters approached school age, he became increasingly concerned with
how he wanted them schooled. Researching that, he decided teaching was what he
really wanted to do. He got a master's degree in elementary education at Murray
State University. He taught for several years, until the fact that his girls
qualified for reduced-price lunches based on his salary got to him. Ronald
Reagan's anti-government policies prevented him from returning to government
work, so he took programming courses and shifted careers again. Programming was
like being paid to solve puzzles all day, but teaching eventually drew him back
until retirement.
For many years of this time, he was working intermittently at a novel that
became Fly Twice Backward: Fresh Starts in Times of Troubles. This concerned
his waking on his twelfth birthday, trying to figure out what had happened,
following his new opportunities, and ultimately outliving an evil president
resembling Donald Trump. After thirty-six years, David finally published it as
an interactive alt-history Kindle novel. He soon started Far Beyond Woman
Suffrage: The Prices of the Vote, an alt-history novelette dealing with the
campaign for woman suffrage. He finished this piece in just ten months. At 81,
he is bold(?) enough to plan this as the first of a six-volume set dealing with
the far-reaching results and implications of woman suffrage. His completed
novels and another in the works are presented for discussion on a new website,
DoFancifulFlights.com
David now lives with his third wife, stepdaughter, and step-grandson near
Winchester, VA. He has a son from his second marriage, six grandchildren, and
two stepchildren. And a funny black dog with four white feet.
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