Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics (Revised)
Susan Ware
(Author)
Description
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
Product Details
Price
$50.40
Publisher
Yale University Press
Publish Date
August 01, 1989
Pages
342
Dimensions
6.11 X 9.17 X 1.13 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780300046212
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Susan Ware, celebrated feminist historian and biographer, is the author of American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction and Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century, among other books. She is the editor of American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote, 1776-1965 and is Honorary Women's Suffrage Centennial Historian at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library.