Partner and I / Robert J. Stoller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoller, Robert J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962.

Dewson, Molly.

Democratic Party (U.S.)--Biography.

Democratic Party (U.S.).

Women politicians--Political activity--History--20th century--United States--Biography.

Women politicians.

Women--United States.

Women.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A fascinating exploration of the private and public worlds of Molly Dewson, America's original female political boss. In the first biography ever written of Dewson, Susan Ware not only examines her political career as a trusted member of the Roosevelt team throughout the New Deal but also considers how Dewson's fifty-two year partnership with Polly Porter and her woman-centered existence strengthened her success as a politician. "Susan Ware's excellent biography of Molly Dewson restores one of Franklin Roosevelt's chums and an irrepressible battler for women in politics to her proper place in the history of the New Deal."-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "Rich, readable, and intriguing biography."-Estelle B. Freedman, Women's Review of Books "Readers should welcome Ware's spotlight on Dewson, which widens to disclose wonderfully human views of FDR and Eleanor and brings to life many virtually forgotten feminists of an era that threatens to fade into gray."-Publishers Weekly "Provides a lively and refreshingly concrete sense of everyday activities in reform and political circles. ... A wonderful account of the model of a modern political woman."-Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Times Literary Supplement Susan Ware is assistant professor of history at New York University, where she also coordinates the Women's History Program.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. A New England Girlhood

CHAPTER TWO. The Education of Molly Dewson

CHAPTER THREE. A Progressive Apprenticeship

CHAPTER FOUR. Polly

CHAPTER FIVE. The Farmer-Suffragettes

CHAPTER SIX. Women at War

CHAPTER SEVEN. "When Red Roses Are Green": The National Consumers' League

The Porter-Dewson Scrapbooks

CHAPTER EIGHT. A Small World: New York in the 19205

CHAPTER NINE. Baptism into Politics

CHAPTER TEN. F. R. B. C. (For Roosevelt Be/ore Chicago)

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Patronage Politics

CHAPTER TWELVE. Campaigns Are Won Between Elections

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The 1936 Campaign

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Castine Revisited

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300160697

0300160690

OCLC:

1059274847