"In England, Paul learned how to conduct a 'campaign of militancy.' She saw women spit in the faces of policemen, hurl rocks through windows and routinely get dragged off to prison, where they went on hunger strikes and were force-fed. In 1909, after crashing a dinner of government dignitaries in London, hurling shoes and demanding the vote, Paul and a colleague were sentenced to a month of hard labor and were force-fed. Paul returned home to her mother on the family farm in New Jersey amid a great deal of notoriety. 'I cannot understand how all this came about,' her mother told the New York Times. 'Alice is such a mild-mannered girl.'"
In the Los Angeles Times, Susan Salter Reynolds reviews Mary Walton's A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot.
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