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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821485303321

Autore

Levy Alan Howard

Titolo

The political life of Bella Abzug, 1976-1998 : electoral failures and the vagaries of identity politics / / Alan H. Levy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8725-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

328.73/092

B

Soggetti

Women legislators - United States

Legislators - United States

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

United States Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Madame Mayor; 2 A Very Expensive Memo; 3 This Jinxed Hotel Again; 4 No Good, No Good At All; 5 Conundrums on the Periphery; 6 Gender Gap; 7 Keeping Faith All the Way to Nairobi; 8 Presumptuous Irrelevance in Geneva; 9 Later Years; 10 International Patronage; 11 Epilogue and Legacy; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1976-1998 is the second part of the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Alan H. Levy explores the political life of one of the most important woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. This second part takes up Abzug's life from the point in 1976 when she narrowly lost her bid for the N.Y. Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. The biography follows Abzug's unsuccessful attempts to regain political prominence, and her work on behalf of women at both national and internationa