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This overview skims over the personalities of turn-of-the-century activists such as Jane Addams, Alice Paul, and Carry Nation, giving summaries of their struggles for temperance, abolition, suffrage, and other reforms. The prose is clear and direct, while black-and-white archival photos depict the era. Although aficionados will want more, the text offers a solid introduction. Further reading, websites. Bib., ind.