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A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Rutgers University Press
December 1999
On Sale: December 16, 1999
298 pages
ISBN: 0813527228
EAN: 9780813527222
Hardcover
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Margaret Chase Smith served thirty-three years in the U.S.
Congress (1940 to 1973). Her congressional tenure spanned
the administrations of six presidents and three major wars,
and marked significant changes in the roles of women in all
aspects of American life. For most of her twenty-four years
as a senator Smith served as the only woman. She was the
first woman to seek the nomination of a major political
party for the presidency of the United States. By the time she left office, Senator Smith was the most
powerful woman in American politics. From her positions on
the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate
Appropriations Committee, and the Aeronautical and Space
Sciences Committee, she exercised considerable influence
over a broad range of military, foreign, and domestic
policies. Yet , Smith did not view herself as a feminist;
in fact, she disparaged feminism. For her, success required
a special combination of hard work, masked ambition, and
proper womanly behavior. No Place for a Woman is the first biography to analyze
Smith's life and times by using politics and gender as the
lens through which we can understand her impact on American
politics and American women. Sherman's research is based
upon more than one hundred hours of personal interviews
with Senator Smith, and extensive research in many primary
documents, including those from the holdings of the
Margaret Chase Smith Library.
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