Review: A People’s History of the United States

Helen Keller wrote this to a suffragist friend in England in 1911, a century ago:

“Our democracy is but a name.  We vote?  What does that mean?  In means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats.    We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee….

You ask for votes for women.  What good can votes do when ten-eleventh to the land of Great Britain belong to 200,000 and one one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000?  Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves to this injustice?”