No Ordinary Woman: The Life of Edith Penrose

by Angela Penrose

Book Overview

Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at first hand, many of the major events of the 20th century--the great depression in the US; the rise of Nazism in Europe; the second world war when she worked as a special adviser to the US Ambassador in London; post-war reconstruction, assisting Eleanor Roosevelt with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the McCarthy era; and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198753942
• ISBN13: 9780198753940
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"