The political life of Bella Abzug, 1976-1998 : electoral failures and the vagaries of identity politics / Alan H. Levy.

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--Poliitics and government--1945-1989.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

v, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]

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 Live and Let Live 5

2 World War II, Law School, and Marriage 21

3 Working People 31

4 An Explosion in My Mind 55

5 Back Downtown 71

6 She Always Did Her Homework 85

7 Go F-Yourself 115

8 These Motherf-ers 135

9 Her Eyes Were Murderous 165

10 Priscilla Ryan 179

11 From Nixon to Ford 189

12 The Last Word 203

13 A Staggering Workload: Caring for the District and the Nation 215

14 Safe Seat to No Seat 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739187241

0739187244

OCLC:

864789606