Our first book in the series follows Martyn while she chronicles --in words and sketches-- the suffragist movement, two political conventions, and the lives of noteworthy women and men during the tumultuous years of America's Progressive Era. Here, you'll find women marching for the vote, child workers dreaming of a better life, teenagers dancing the Bunny Hug in dimly lit clubs, long skirts and big hats. Criminals and politicians, artists and archbishops, corsets and conventions, romance and rebellion--Martyn covered it all, with sensitivity, wit and whimsy.

Liberty Bonds Bayonets Marguerite Martyn

Clair Kenamore was a reporter with a camera on the Western Front; Marguerite Martyn stayed home with an interviewer’s pen and artist’s sketchbook. They were husband and wife. World War I forced them apart.
He reported what he saw. Doughboy Sammy Goldberg coming back from the trenches with seventeen German prisoners. Blond French girls flirting in German with boisterous American troops. Men dying.
Her imagination soared. Befuddled diners wondering how to get around wartime food regulations. A “lady colonel” standing on a soapbox. Negligée boudoir gowns.
George Garrigues has woven together the writing and illustrations of these wartime journalists to create a unique and memorable perspective on World War I at home and abroad.
It was in the newspapers, a hundred years ago. Read it and see it for the first time in a century.

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