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Title Plenty ladylike / Claire McCaskill, with Terry Ganey.
Author McCaskill, Claire, author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B MCCASKILL    Check Shelves
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-241) and index.
Summary Missouri's first woman senator recounts her coming-of-age in a political family at a time when women were held back from their ambitions, describing her failed first marriage, her unconventional choices in office and her relationships with fellow politicians. --Publisher's description.
Contents Blonde ambition -- Bill and Betty -- A house hazing -- Madame prosecutor -- A statewide office -- Reaching for a dream -- "Go for it." -- Call me Claire -- Boondoggles -- Dark money -- Operation Dog Whistle -- The magic uterus -- Divine intervention -- A new civility -- "A vastly underreported offense." -- Redefining ladylike.
Subject McCaskill, Claire.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Political culture -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Women politicians -- Missouri -- Biography.
Auditors -- Missouri -- Biography.
Missouri -- Politics and government.
2000 - 2099
Genre Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Added Author Ganey, Terry, author.
ISBN 9781476756752 (hardcover) : $26.00
1476756759 (hardcover)
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