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xviii, 170 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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"Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the most beloved boss ladies in Congress: a celebration of Representative Maxine Waters, who reclaimed her time and led the first calls for impeachment"--
Maxine Waters, the longest serving Black woman in the US House of Representatives, has been in public service for more than forty years. The first woman and the first African American chair of the House Financial Services...
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262 pages ; 24 cm
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"A lively, behind-the-scenes look at the historic cohort of diverse, young, and groundbreaking women newly elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 as they arrive in Washington, DC, and start working for change, written by a news reporter with sharp insight and deep knowledge of the Hill"--
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275 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar, the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress. Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided...
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A chronicle of the Massachusetts senator's two-decade career in Washington describes her childhood pursuit of an education, early exposure to the dysfunctional political process, high-risk advocacy of better bankruptcy laws and competitive run for public office.
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When California state representative Davida Grayson is murder detectives Will Barnes and Amanda Isis must unravel her complex life to catch the murder. In Nashville detectives Baker Southerby and Lamar Van Gundy must find out who slashed the throat of Jack Jeffries, rock legend, who had just come out of retirement to do a benefit.
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xviii, 414 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even her close friends did not know the name of the illness that debilitated her for two decades until it struck her down at the age of fifty-nine. In Barbara...
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132 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 21 cm
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English
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A celebratory biography of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka "AOC"), the youngest congresswoman in United States history, detailing not only her life but the movement she has energized.
Born in the Bronx and raised in the suburbs of Westchester County, New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez witnessed firsthand how a person's zip code can shape their destiny. That early exposure to income inequality fueled a passion for change that, in turn, led her to take...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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A picture-book biography about Nancy Pelosi, showing her journey from the child of Baltimore's mayor to her marble-ceiling-shattering four terms as Speaker of the House, including the historic events of January 6th, 2021.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Nancy Pelosi herself, this inspiring picture book biography follows her journey from the child of Baltimore's mayor to a 33-year career as a political representative.
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199 pages ; 20 cm
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"Ten More Doors: Politics and the Path to Change is a political memoir about one woman's quirky but determined drive to make political change inside and outside of the political system. It tracks the wins, losses, and neighborhood campaigns of an unlikely New Mexico Senator who ultimately scores some big victories for her Hispanic district with healthcare and democracy reforms. It is for anyone who wants to make a political change, start a campaign...
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xviii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Part of a four-book series celebrating women in congress, this biography of the historic, trailblazing Speaker of the House describes how being the daughter of a Congressman and Democratic party organizer in Maryland prepared her to play the political game.
Nancy Pelosi's presence behind the Speaker's rostrum is an reminder that the old and tired guard, the cobwebbed patriarchy that has been Congress for ages, is a dying one. As the power broker...
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viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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A New York Times best-selling author and USA Today Washington bureau chief offers a new biography of Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful women in American politics.
Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi didn't begin running for office until she was forty-six years old, her five children mostly out of the nest. Since then she has lived on the cutting edge of the revolution in both women's roles and in the nation's movement to a fiercer and more polarized politics....
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"A celebration of the history-making women of the 116th Congress, who stand as a testament to what power looks and sounds like in 2019. The first woman Speaker of the House. The first female combat veteran. The first Native American women. The first Muslim women. The first openly gay member of the Senate. These are just some of the remarkable firsts represented by the women of the 116th Congress, the most diverse and inclusive in American history....
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For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...
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182 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
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A biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady during her husband's Bill Clinton's administration, New York Senator, Secretary of State during Barack Obama's administration, and candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 2016.
20) A single woman
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of the first U.S. Congresswoman and co-founder of the ACLU, Jeannette Rankin, adapted from the stage play.
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