weiss, first of all, why did it come down to tennessee? >> well, it -- the federal amendment, so, the suffrage cause had been going on for seven decades, 72 years at this point, if we mark it from the first organized meeting at seneca falls in 1848. that's not the first time it was discussed. it wasn't the first time women were advocating for it, but we market it as that, for various reasons. it's the first public call. so from that time to 1920, 72 years. the-- for various reasons that i explained in the book, women were working both at the state level and at the federal level. they finally got a federal amendment passed after 40 years. it has been stuck in congress for who years, since 1878 and finally, in 1919 after world war i and women participating in a different way than they'd ever participated before, congress finally relengths narrowly, narrowly passes it and it goes out to the state. three quarters of the states have to ratify, that's 36 states because there are 48 states in the union at that time, 35 have ratified by the summer of 1920, just one more if needed, and for various reasons, it turns out, tennessee is the sort of best hope for the suffragists. >>