Bella Abzug : how one tough broad from the Bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, pissed off Jimmy Carter, battled for the rights of women and workers, rallied against war and for the planet, and shook up politics along the way : an oral history / by Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom.
For more than fifty years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised, as an activist, congresswoman, and leader in every major social initiative of her time--from Zionism and labor in the 40s to the ban-the-bomb efforts in the 50s, to civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements of...
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Main Author: | Levine, Suzanne Braun. |
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Other Authors: | Thom, Mary. |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2007.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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