Politics of Conscience: A Biography of Margaret Chase Smith

by Patricia Ward Wallace

Book Overview

Margaret Chase Smith was the most influential woman in the history of American politics. Her goal was to be a United States senator, not a woman senator, and she succeeded by overcoming gender, not by championing it. Smith began her political career as Maine's daughter and demonstrated nationally the New England virtues of honesty, hard work, frugality, and reticence. She became America's heroine when she courageously confronted Senator Joe McCarthy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275951308
• ISBN13: 9780275951306
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"