What a difference a woman makes. The nine women of the United States Senate have changed the political landscape, and there's no turning back. Now, for the first time, in Nine and Counting, readers will be treated to an inside view of their private and public lives. As the senators share their stories and reflections with refreshing candor, insight, and humor, they demonstrate how ordinary women can overcome barriers and achieve extraordinary goals. These nine women are more different than they are alike. Their backgrounds, personal styles, and political ideals are as diverse as the United States itself. Yet they share a commonality that runs deeper than politics or geography: the desire to give voice to all of their constituents while serving as role models for women young and old. Each seantor brings her unique perspective to the mix.

Nine and Counting: The Women of the Senate

Biographies & Memoirs

Whitney, Catherine

Hutchison, Kay Bailey

Collins, Susan

Mikulski, Barbara

Boxer, Barbara

Snowe, Olympia

Feinstein, Dianne

Girl Scouts of, The USA

Catherine, Whitney

Murray, Patty

Collins, Susan M.

Landrieu, Mary L.

Lincoln, Blanche Lambert

Leaders & Notable People

William Morrow

The Women of the United States Senate have forever changed the political landscape. Their backgrounds, personal styles, and political ideals may be as diverse as the nation they serve. Yet they share a commonality that runs deeper than politics or geography -- they desire to give a voice to all their constituents while serving as role models for women young and old.
Once every month, these distinguished women for an informal dinner to share their knowledge, their hearts, and a good meal. Leaving behind partisanship and rhetoric, they discuss and debate the issues, both political and personal, affecting their lives. And following the 2000 election of four women to the Senate, the table is now set for thirteen. Weaving together their individual stories of triumph, adversity, adaptability, and leadership, Nine and Counting gives voice to these charismatic women as never before, offering a rare, insider's glimpse into Washington and sending the powerful message that membership in the "world's most exclusive club" is open to every woman in America.

Collins, Senator Susan

Girl Scouts of the United States of Amer

Community & Culture

Harper-perennial

The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life

"One goal of this memoir is to inspire people to fight for change. It takes what I call the Art of Tough and I've had to do it all my life."---Senator Barbara Boxer Barbara Boxer has made her mark, combining compassionate advocacy with scrappiness in a political career spanning more than three decades. Now, retiring from the Senate, she continues the work to which she's dedicated 30 years in Congress. Her memoir, The Art of Tough, shares her provocative and touching recollections of service, and cements her commitment to the fight for women, families, quality, environmental protection, all in a peaceful world. Sometimes lauded, sometimes vilified, but always standing tough, Boxer has fought for what is right even when her personal convictions conflicted with her party or the majority rule.

Grand Central Publishing

After serving in Congress for more than thirty years as both a congresswoman and a senator, Senator Boxer has proven herself to be a passionate advocate for significant issues of our time, including the military, civil rights, universal health care, and the environment. With a who's who of politics of the past three decades, Boxer shows all of the machinations that it takes to make government work, much of it off the record. Featuring figures beloved and reviled, Boxer's memoir takes us behind the scenes to show us what it has been like to deal with George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitch McConnell, as well as Tip O'Neill, the Clintons, Obama, and so many more. Raised in a Jewish, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, Boxer was a journalist who decided she could make a difference and ran for local office in California, inspired to fight tooth and nail to help bring that American dream of "a more perfect union" into fruition. Behind closed doors in secret negotiating rooms, Boxer has seen it all: petty squabbling, bare-knuckled dysfunctional debate, and vicious character assassinations. Drawing back the curtain, she leads readers in a master class in statecraft, revealing the truth behind controversial policies, temperamental elected officials, and sensational media headlines that have dominated our national discourse. In this passionate, heartfelt testament to one woman's life's work to improve democracy for all, Senator Boxer offers her views on how American government is flawed and can be rescued to ultimately flourish, but only with the full participation of the nation at large.

Now married (to a Republican!) and in her second term, United States Senator Ellen Fisher (Democrat) is about to chair explosive hearings on Homeland Security. Before she goes head to head with the Vice President, whose excessive zeal in enforcing national security has begun to infringe on individual liberties, Ellen and her staff become the subjects of a barrage of charges and attacks that threaten their safety, as well as her career and marriage. This second novel by Senator Barbara Boxer is the story of dirty tricks and political survival, and the battle for integrity in the corridors of power. Combining the personal and the political, Blind Trust is an intriguing insider's view of what goes on behind closed doors in Washington, D.C.

Blind Trust: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Chronicle Books+

Creating a truly unique storybook” wedding album involves combining black and white wedding candids with more traditional formal color photographsas well as mementos and bits of text, poetry, and readings from the wedding. This book describes techniques to capture special moments at a weddingintimate interactions, hugs, playfulness, and even tears. It also explains how to be unobtrusive by shooting with natural light and occasional flash. Instructions on how to market this unique style of wedding photography and portions of sample albums to use as models are included.

Storytelling Wedding Photography: Techniques and Images in Black & White

Arts & Photography

Box, Barbara

Photography & Video

Amherst Media

Politics is no longer only a man's game. For the first time in history women are finally significant players in the political game. Called by some the "Women's Iwo Jima," the photograph on the cover of this book shows then-Congresswoman Barbara Boxer leading the march up the Senate steps that initiated the greatest women's revolution since the 1960s. Pressure from Boxer and other women leaders forced the Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings into being and catapulted women into the forefront of American politics. Strangers in the Senate is the inside story of that phenomenal revolution, told by Senator Barbara Boxer, one of its principal warriors. Senator Boxer reveals how Anita Hill's allegations tapped into the sexual harassment of American women, including female members of Congress - and how Americans began voting for women in numbers never before equalled. She depicts a momentous change in voters' attitudes - a transformation that more than tripled the number of women in the Senate in the space of a single year. With characteristic warmth, humor and intelligence, Boxer provides illuminating insights into her life as a woman in politics, letting the reader share in her many struggles and victories. She describes the discouragement she felt on the campaign trail, as people slammed doors in her face, telling her to stay home and raise her children, or underestimated her talents because she was a woman. But she also relates the deep pride she takes in knowing that she can make a difference in issues from sexual harassment to freedom of choice to gun control. Her legislation in her decade-long career as Representative from California, and now Senator, has left an indelible imprint on American society. In Strangers in the Senate, Boxer writes forthrightly of her personal experiences - of her own painful case of sexual harassment by a college professor, of the friend of her son's who was killed as a result of lax gun-control policies - and, as a mother, of her intense concern for education. Boxer includes stories of many of her colleagues who were also touched by the issues that they legislate - women such as Pat Schroeder and Barbara Mikulski, whom Boxer counts among her mentors and friends. Their insightful and often humorous testimonies provide a fascinating account of the lives of women in the highest legislative bodies in America. These are put into historical perspective in an informative chapter on the history of women in government and in Hillary Rodham Clinton's foreword on the political activism of First Ladies. Women are not better than men, Boxer believes - only different; and their different perspectives are crucial for a relevant democracy. Strangers in the Senate is an inspiring story which is unfolding every day all across America as more and more women participate in a truly exciting revolution.

Strangers in the Senate: Politics and the New Revolution of Women in America

Boxer, Nicole

Natl Pr Books

The senator from California presents the inside story of the  transformation of the Senate from a largely male body, discussing the  memorable march of women legislators, the Clarence Thomas scandal, and  the welcomed death of the "old boy" network.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

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