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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. 392 [index]pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with rubbing. Inscribed by the author. Biography of Maine Senator best remembered for her courageous 1950 stand against Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy.
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Very good in Very good jacket. xxv, 392, [11] pages. Illustrations. Endnotes. Selected Works Consulted. Index. Inscribed by author to Chris Mason on the fep. DJ has some flap creasing. Patricia Schmidt is a Professor for English in the University of Florida. Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897-May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U. S Representative (1940-49) and a U.S. Senator (1949-73) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either. A moderate Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of McCarthyism in her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience". Smith was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1964 presidential election; she was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party's convention. Upon leaving office, she was the longest-serving female Senator in history, a distinction that was not surpassed until January 5, 2011, when Senator Barbara Mikulski was sworn in for a fifth term. Smith was ranked as the longest-serving Republican woman in the Senate, a distinction that was not surpassed until January 3, 2021, when Susan Collins, who holds the same Senate seat she previously held, was sworn in for a fifth term. Following her departure from the Senate, Smith taught at several colleges and universities as a visiting professor for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (1973-1976). She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush on July 6, 1989. The author conducted extensive research and benefited from personal contact with her subject for this exceptional and authoritative biography. Extracts from the publisher's website: Margaret Chase Smith is best remembered for her courageous 1950 stand against Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and as a woman who succeeded in the public domain. Margaret Chase Smith's long career--from her election to the House of Representatives in 1940 through her upset victory in the 1948 Maine Senate race and her run for the presidency in 1964--was intertwined with the fundamental issues of her times: gender and fairness, anti-Communism, nuclear war, order and anarchy, the relationship between a grass roots citizenry and elected representatives--issues that continue to have importance in the twenty-first century. Patricia L. Schmidt's biography presents Margaret Chase Smith as a focused, ambitious, and complex public figure. The author shows how Smith's mainstream "conventional" persona was the primary means by which she was able to escape forties and fifties boundaries of gender and class which would ordinarily have held her back. In a narrative which carries the reader well beyond a catalogue of congressional votes and bills, Margaret Chase Smith: Beyond Convention illuminates the largely unknown private side of Smith's life, from her childhood and adolescence in rural Maine, through her troubled marriage to the politically astute Clyde Smith, her later relationship with companion and administrative assistant William C. Lewis, Jr., and her forced 1972 retirement when she faced aging and the loss of power. Clearly focused on fundamental ideas of private ethics and public morality, of persona and private self, rural and urban modes of existence, qualities that led to success in public life and foibles that led to personal and public embarrassment--Margaret Chase Smith: Beyond Convention is also a "page turner.".
