Eighteen Days in New York: A Novel about the 1924 Democratic Convention($16.99Value)

Description

Journey back in time as author Bill Lewers puts you on the floor of New York’s Madison Square Garden in the midst of one of the most remarkable political events in our nation’s history! The year is 1924. Claudia Burnham, cub reporter for the Washington Chronicle and alternate delegate for the state of Virginia, is heading to New York City to cover the Democratic National Convention. There, armed with only her charm, wits, and can-do attitude, she must navigate the male-dominated worlds of journalism and politics. Once in New York, she is promoted to full delegate only to discover that advancement and conscience don’t always go hand-in-hand. As a reporter she looks on as forces as diverse as Prohibition, the League of Nations, and the Ku Klux Klan threaten to rip the Democratic Party apart. At the same time a multitude of candidates vie for support as the convention descends into a deadlocked nightmare that goes on and on, ballot after ballot, day after day. Party leaders search desperately for a way out of the impasse while Claudia reports on every development, scheme, and rumor that takes place, both on and off the convention floor. Claudia would like to help resolve the situation but as a lone delegate, closely monitored by her leaders, she is powerless to do so. Or is she? Reviewed by Rabia Taveer for Readers' Favorite "The background building was phenomenal, and the descriptions were vivid. I could almost imagine myself beside Claudia as she gathered information...Eighteen Days in New York is such a powerful novel. Claudia's character was the driving force of the story, and I just loved her for all her flaws!" Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite "Bill Lewers is able to weave a strong narrative that captures so much of the past and breathes life into an event that most everyday Americans do not know about ." Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers' Favorite "Author Bill Lewers has taken what these days is a fairly predictable exercise, the political convention, and reminded us what a truly chaotic and exciting adventure these conventions did actually used to be... It was so easy to identify with Claudia, a feisty woman struggling to come to terms with not only a still very patriarchal society but a political process that had only just accepted women as equals in its ranks."