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Plenty ladylike / Claire McCaskill with Terry Ganey.
LIBRA E176 .M125 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCaskill, Claire, author.
- Ganey, Terry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCaskill, Claire.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States--Politics and government--21st century.
- Political culture--United States--Anecdotes.
- Political culture.
- Women--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Women.
- Women politicians--Missouri--Biography.
- Women politicians.
- Auditors--Missouri--Biography.
- Auditors.
- Missouri--Politics and government.
- Missouri.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Politics and government.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
- Summary:
- Missouri's first woman senator recounts her coming-of-age in a political family at a time when women were held back from their ambitions, describing her failed first marriage, her unconventional choices in office and her relationships with fellow politicians. --Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Blonde ambition
- Bill and Petty
- A house hazing
- Madame prosecutor
- A statewide office
- Reaching for a dream
- "Go for it."
- Call me Claire
- Boondoggles
- Dark money
- Operation Dog Whistle
- The magic uterus
- Divine intervention
- A new civility
- "A vastly underreported offense."
- Redefining ladylike.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476756752
- 1476756759
- 9781476756776
- 1476756775
- OCLC:
- 894746935
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