Leading ladies : American trailblazers / Kay Bailey Hutchison.
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper Luxe, c2007.Edition: 1st Harper Luxe edDescription: xvi, 591 p. (large print) ; 23 cmISBN: - 0061146021 (pbk.)
- 9780061146022 (pbk.)
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In a series of skillfully drawn biographical portraits, United States Senator and bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison examines the lives of sixty-three pioneers in military service, journalism, public health, social reform, science, and politics--all American women. Mixing historical portraits with modern success stories, Senator Hutchison shows how American women from all periods of history have contributed to the strength and progress of our nation. Senator Hutchison, a trailblazer herself, became the first woman from the state of Texas elected to the United States Senate.
With courage, purpose, and compassion, the women of Leading Ladies continue to blaze trails for thousands of American women to follow--and no history of the nation can be written without them.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-591).
Biographical portraits of: Sybil Ludington, Lydia Darragh, Deborah Sampson, Margaret Corbin, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Loreta Janeta Velasquez, Rose Greenhow, Elizabeth Van Lew, Ruby Bradley, Virginia Hall, Anna Mae Hays, Elizabeth Hoisington, Jeanne Holm, Dolley Madison, Helen "Nellie" Taft, Edith Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eliza Jane Poitevent, Pearl Buck, Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, Amy Tan, Liz Balmaseda, Maria Elena Salinas, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, Rosa Parks, Barbara Jordan, Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice Hamilton, Alice Evans, Martha Ray Eliot, Helen Taussig, Rachel Carson, Virginia Apgar, Gerty Cori, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, Barbara McClintock, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Gertrude Elion, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Jody Williams, Lindy Boggs, Dianne Feinstein, Olympia Snowe, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Elaine Chao, Mary Bono.