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While the information in this book is really interesting, I found it intermittently quite dry, hence the so-so rating. It details the political lives of 3 women who ran for the presidency: Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1962), and Shirley Chisholm (1972). Someday, you guys, someday.

"I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear…Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory."

Spoken in 2016?

Nope. In 1950 by Margaret Chase Smith, first woman in the Senate. I bet she'd be sad today.

It's #PresidentsDay, and out of the 45 presidents the US has had, no woman has ever held the job of President or Vice President, well behind other nations who have had women as their head leader. Here's some books that discuss women running for president in the past & future as well as the role they've played in American politics. 🇺🇸

#readwomen

Someday it WILL shatter.

Amazing. Comprehensive and interesting history of American women's journey to the Presidency. Will probably become more well-circulated if Hillary actually wins in November.

Great read, thorough research. Showed me that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Here's to better political discourse.