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Simon & Schuster
August 2015
On Sale: August 11, 2015
272 pages
ISBN: 1476756759
EAN: 9781476756752
Kindle: B00P4349L4
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The female senator from Missouri shares her inspiring story
of embracing her ambition, surviving sexist slings, making a
family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies—and
finding joy along the way. Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a
time that welcomed women with big plans. She earned a law
degree and paid her way through school by working as a
waitress. By 1982 Claire had set her sights on the Missouri
House of Representatives. Typically, one voter whose door
she knocked on said: “You’re too young; your hair is too
long; you’re a girl….Go find yourself a husband.” That door
was slammed in her face, but Claire always kept
pushing—first as a prosecutor of arsonists and rapists and
then all the way to the door of a cabal of Missouri
politicians who had secret meetings to block her legislation. In this candid, lively, and forthright memoir, Senator
McCaskill describes her uphill battle to become who she is
today, from her failed first marriage to a Kansas City car
dealer—the father of her three children—to her current
marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as “a
life partner.” She depicts her ups and downs with the
Clintons, her long-shot reelection as senator after secretly
helping to nominate a right-wing extremist as her opponent,
and the fun of joining the growing bipartisan sisterhood in
the Senate. From the day she was elected homecoming queen in high
school, Claire has loved politics and winning. Her memoir is
unconventional: unsparing in its honesty, full of sharp
humor and practical wisdom, and rousing in its defense of
female ambition.
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