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The political life of Bella Abzug, 1920-1976 : political passions, women's rights, and congressional battles / Alan H. Levy.
Van Pelt Library E840.8.A2 L487 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Alan Howard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998.
- Abzug, Bella S.
- United States. Congress. House.
- Women legislators--United States--Biography.
- Women legislators.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States. Congress. House--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- v, 287 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976-1998 is the second part of the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Alan H. Levy explores the political life of one of the most important women in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. This second part takes up Abzug's life from the point in 1976 when she narrowly lost her bid for the New York Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. The biography follows her subsequent failed effort to win the Democratic Party's nomination for mayor of New York City in 1977, her leading a controversial National Women's Convention in Houston in late 1977, her failed attempt to return to the U.S. Congress in 1978, and her conflicts with President Jimmy Carter and his administration. The biography then traces the efforts in which Abzug was engaged to regain political prominence and her work on behalf of women at both national and international levels. Through the events in Abzug's life, Levy explores tensions that surrounded the contrasts between political principles, which idealized a world in which gender posed no barriers to any human effort, and political views, which sought to extol and develop notions of gender and of ideas about its special meanings in human affairs and politics. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Madame Mayor 5
- 2 A Very Expensive Memo: Houston and Its Discontents 41
- 3 This Jinxed Hotel Again 65
- 4 No Good, No Good At All 79
- 5 Conundrums on the Periphery 125
- 6 Gender Gap 159
- 7 Keeping Faith All the Way to Nairobi 191
- 8 Presumptuous Irrelevance in Geneva 217
- 9 Later Years: Martin's Passing and More Identity Politics 231
- 10 International Patronage 267
- 11 Epilogue and Legacy 313.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739181645
- 0739181645
- OCLC:
- 852745783
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