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The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency

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Description for The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency Hardback. A woman will one day occupy the Oval Office because women themselves have made it inevitable, says best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick. She tells the remarkable 150-year story of the candidates, voters, activists, and citizens who, despite overwhelming odds against women in politics, set their sights on the highest glass ceiling in the land. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates. Their quest illuminates today’s political landscape, showing that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign belongs to a much longer, arduous, and dramatic journey.

The tale begins during Reconstruction when the radical Woodhull became the first woman to seek the presidency. Although women could not yet vote, Woodhull boldly staked her claim to the White House, believing she ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674088931
SKU
V9780674088931
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Ellen Fitzpatrick
Ellen Fitzpatrick is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.

Reviews for The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency
Fitzpatrick’s history is an urgent, crucial contribution… A book unlikely to calm any nerves, but which will at least put our gendered anxieties in historical perspective… Fitzpatrick’s smartly timed book should remind us not to let whatever history we make just pass us by.
Rebecca Traister
New York Times Book Review
Fitzpatrick tells the compelling stories of ... Read more

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