want to introduce you to linda lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, "inez: the life and times of inez milholland." who was she, professor lumsden? >> guest: well, she was, one, the sole martyr for women's suffrage in the united states. she was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. and she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. she was a free lover, part of the greenwich village crowd. she was a war correspondent. she was a socialist. she was an advocate for prostitutes and, basically, any person who was the underdog. she also was rich are. she was beautiful -- she was rich, she was beautiful and she liked to dance. [laughter] >> host: you open the book at vassar. what happened? and what period are we talking about here this. >> guest: okay. this is 1908, 1909, she's a junior at vassar college. she's also a star at

. >> host: linda lumsden teaches journalism here at the university of arizona and is the author of this book, "inez." >> guest: thank you. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction be hours and -- nonfiction be authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more it's for serious readers. >> we're outside the trenton city museum this trenton, new jersey, where c-span is learning more about the city's literary scene. up next, we speak with robert greg grieve i have on his book, "borderline citizens." >> older immigration history, tended to focus on nation-centered accounts, so we tended to frame immigration history in terms of the uprooted, the transplanted. and these ideas assumed that migrants crossed a clear boundary, crossing from their home country to the united states. and what i show this my book is that this border was very much constructed between the u.s. and puerto rico and that puerto rican migration is fundamentally shaped by u.s. colonial policy on the island. in the war of 1898, the u.s. invades puerto rico and the philippines. and after the war we will tak

. >> host: linda lumsden is here and she is the author of this book "inez" the life and time of inez millholland. who was she? >> she was the sole martyr for women's referage movement for women's rights. she was a lawyer who had to fight to be able to practice, she was a free lover, part of the greenitch village crowd, she was a war correspondent, a socialist, an advocate for prostitutes and any person who was the underdog. she was rich. she was beautiful. and she liked to dance. >> you open the book at baser. what happens? what period are we talking about? >> she is a junior and a star of the campus. hillary stanton blast is going out and women are in the tread. inez spent her teenagerane years in britain -- she goes to the president and says we will like to have a blast and she doesn't take no for an answer. she leaves one spring day, about 25 students, and faculty follow her from campus next door to the cemetery and there all these women listened to these suffrages. these 20th century women who were independent and all about freedom, agency, the ability to live meaningful lives an