No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith

by Janann Sherman

Book Overview

No Place for a Woman is the first biography to analyze Margaret Chase Smith's life and times by using politics and gender as the lens through which we can understand this Maine senator's impact on American politics and American women. Sherman's research is based upon more than one hundred hours of personal interviews with Senator Smith, and extensive research in primary and government documents, including those from the holdings of the Margaret Chase...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813527228
• ISBN13: 9780813527222
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

MCS

This was a fabulous biography of Margaret Chase Smith. Sherman does a great job of relating her themes to the narrative. Connections are emphasized regarding major points. This book is very readable as well as informative.

Competent and worth reading

I confess to a weakness for biographies of U. S. senators. I seldom see one I don't want to read, and when I saw this one I knew I would have to read it. Smith actually had an amazing career (elected to the House of Representatives in 1940 and to the Senate in 1948, reelected in 1954, 1960, 1966, and defeated for reelection in 1972) and this unpretentious book, solidly but not exhaustively researched, recounts it well. It is quite laudatory, but will be critical when it is clear criticism is warranted. Mrs. Smith was not a great brain but she was a great working politician, ably assisted by her AA.