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The Highest Glass Ceiling - Women's Quest for the American Presidency (Hardcover)
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The Highest Glass Ceiling - Women's Quest for the American Presidency (Hardcover)
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In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen
Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their
sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872),
Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each
challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential
candidates. Their quest illuminates today's political landscape,
showing that Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign belongs to a much
longer, arduous, and dramatic journey. The tale begins during
Reconstruction when the radical Woodhull became the first woman to
seek the presidency. Although women could not yet vote, Woodhull
boldly staked her claim to the White House, believing she might
thereby advance women's equality. Republican Senator Margaret Chase
Smith came into political office through the "widow's mandate."
Among the most admired women in public life when she launched her
1964 campaign, she soon confronted prejudice that she was too old
(at 66) and too female to be a creditable presidential candidate.
She nonetheless became the first woman to have her name placed in
nomination for President by a major party. Democratic Congresswoman
Shirley Chisholm ignored what some openly described as the twin
disqualifications of race and gender in her spirited 1972
presidential campaign. She ran all the way to the Democratic
convention, inspiring diverse followers and angering opponents,
including members of the Nixon administration who sought to derail
her candidacy. As The Highest Glass Ceiling reveals, women's
pursuit of the Oval Office, then and now, has involved myriad forms
of influence, opposition, and intrigue.
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