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Praeger, Date: 1995. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1995. Praeger ISBN 0275951308 9780275951306 [US]

ISBN10: 0275951308, ISBN13: 9780275951306, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1995]

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Politics of Conscience: A Biography of Margaret Chase Smith. ISBN 0275951308 9780275951306 [GB]

Greenwood, Date: 1995. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 1995. Greenwood ISBN 0275951308 9780275951306 [IN]

ISBN10: 0275951308, ISBN13: 9780275951306, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Margaret Chase Smith was the most influential woman in the history of American politics. Her goal was to be a United States senator, not a woman senator, and she succeeded by overcoming gender, not by championing it. Smith began her political career as Maine's daughter and demonstrated nationally the New England virtues of honesty, hard work, frugality, and reticence. She became America's heroine when she courageously confronted Senator Joe McCarthy at the height of his power with her Declaration of Conscience speech. In her statement she championed the American right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs, and to practice free speech. Associating herself with the politics of conscience, Smith won three more terms in the Senate and sat on the powerful Armed Services, Appropriations, Space, Government Operations, and Intelligence committees. Altogether, she was in Congress 32 years and by the time her career ended she had established an enduring prototype for female and minority politicians.This biography of Margaret Chase Smith is the first historical treatment of Smith to use her voluminous private papers as well as extensive interviews with Smith and her colleagues in Congress. As Maine's daughter, Smith was frugal, hard-working, reticent, and caustic. At age thirty-two she married, in scandal, ...
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Hardback. New. This is a biography of Margaret Chase Smith, who ran for her boss's seat in Congress in 1940, upon his death. She succeeded, and embarked upon a distinguished career as the only woman in the United States Senate. ISBN 0275951308 9780275951306 [GB]