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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 enemiesβand 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: βYouβre too young; your hair is too long; youβre a girlβ¦.Go find yourself a husband.β That door was slammed in her face, but Claire always kept pushingβfirst 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 dealerβthe father of her three childrenβto her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as βa life partner.β 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.
 Media BuzzMeet the Press - August 9, 2015
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