The publisher invites us to "...imagine a spunkier, and more controversial Rosie the Riveter -- a generation older, and more outlandish for her time. During the war she was the toast of Broadway, the darling of the smart set, a star of the wartime cinema newsreel and highlight of the Liberty Loan parade… And then she disappeared."
"For ninety years the farmerette has been lost, totally and inexplicably forgotten, wiped from the national memory. Her story has never before been told…until now. Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War by Elaine F. Weiss brings the lost story of the farmerette back to American history."
Weiss was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition this weekend and will be on an extensive book tour of illustrated lectures about the Woman's Land Army during the next few months. She will appear at the Sewall Belmont Museum in DC on March 17, the Providence Public Library on March 22, Vassar College on April 4, Maryland Historical Society on May 14.
"For ninety years the farmerette has been lost, totally and inexplicably forgotten, wiped from the national memory. Her story has never before been told…until now. Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War by Elaine F. Weiss brings the lost story of the farmerette back to American history."
Weiss was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition this weekend and will be on an extensive book tour of illustrated lectures about the Woman's Land Army during the next few months. She will appear at the Sewall Belmont Museum in DC on March 17, the Providence Public Library on March 22, Vassar College on April 4, Maryland Historical Society on May 14.
