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American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
Title:
American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
Author:
Des Jardins, Julie, author.
Contents:
The makings of a sob story -- A cub reporter in -- Manhattan...marriage...motherhood...magazines-modernity, 1900-1914 -- What it means to be a patriot (The suffragist, who wasn't), 1915-1920 -- Cultivating relationships and best sellers for and by women, 1920 -- The publicist of Madame Curie, 1921 -- Thinking up the next best thing for women readers, workers, and voters, 1922-1926 -- A widow's touch at the New York Herald Tribune, 1926-1927 -- The work of weaving webs, 1928-29 -- Being useful in a Great Depression, 1930-1932 -- Female friends, forums, fascists, and freedom of speech, 1933-1934 -- Publicly turning a page, 1934-1936 -- Illness and impending war, 1937-1940 -- A woman's work is never done, 1940-1943.
ISBN:
9781541645493
Physical Description:
xix, 359 pages ; 25 cm
Format:
Books
Publication Date as Range:
2020