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020 $a9781596914803 (alk. paper)
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100 1 $aDenton, Sally.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88219225
245 14 $aThe pink lady :$bthe many lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas /$cSally Denton.
246 30 $aMany lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2009.
300 $a240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDiva 1900-1930 -- $g2.$tActivist 1931-1944 -- $g3.$tCongresswoman 1944-1950 -- $g4.$tPink Lady 1950 -- $g5.$tHumanitarian 1951-1980.
520 1 $a"Helen Gahagan Douglas's story reads like a movie script: An Irish girl from Brooklyn, she defied her father to become a Broadway star, then an internationally acclaimed opera diva. She married a Hollywood film star, but as the Great Depression raged, Douglas was drawn into politics, moved to action by the sight of Dust Bowl refugees in California. She won three terms in Congress and rose to prominence in the Democratic Party as an eloquent advocate of FDR's New Deal." "Beautiful, passionate, and fiercely intelligent, Douglas would become a close friend of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the lover of another rising star - the young Lyndon Johnson. She was tipped by some as a likely vice presidential nominee; everyone agreed she would be a leader of the postwar Democratic Party. But in 1950, going against political advice, she ran for the Senate against a young congressman named Richard Nixon." "Nixon's brutal campaign ended Douglas's political career - he and his operatives rode the wave of anti-Communist hysteria then sweeping the nation, and tagged her "the Pink Lady." Douglas was routed, and Nixon's fear-mongering tactics would become a template for conservative attack politics, a model taken to heart by the likes of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove." "Although Douglas's political career was short-lived, hers was a full and daring life. She was a torchbearer for progressivism, supporting legislation for affordable housing, public education, and social security. She fought for nuclear disarmament and the creation of Israel. She was a pioneer, not just as a woman in office but as a celebrity who turned her glamour into political clout."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aDouglas, Helen Gahagan,$d1900-1980.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81090308
650 0 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106857
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCongress.$bHouse$vBiography.
650 0 $aActors$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100561
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