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| | Amazon.ca: Madam President : Shattering The Last Glass Ceiling: Books: Eleanor Clift,Tom Brazaitis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | This book makes great use of the access Clift and Brazaitis have to the busy and powerful in D.C. It is a terrific overview of the situation of female elites in electoral politics, full of the anecdotes, tidbits, and commentary that years on the political scene can bring. |
 | | Clift, a Newsweek editor and McLaughlin Group panelist, and her husband, Brazaitis, an editor and columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (co-authors of War Without Bloodshed), emphasize Geraldine Ferraro's watershed vice-presidential bid on the 1984 Democratic ticket with Walter Mondale, and how Mondale's loss was laid at Ferraro'sAand all women'sAfeet. |
 | | From the election of Margaret Thatcher in England to the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas debate, Clift and Brazaitis explore the catalysts that have spurred women to challenge the old boy network, as well as President Clinton's groundbreaking appointments of the first women to hold such key positions as attorney general and secretary of state. |
| www.amazon.ca /Madam-President-Shattering-Glass-Ceiling/dp/0684856190 (1403 words) |
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