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Margaret Chase Smith was the most influential woman in the history of American politics.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: Showcasing a Legend Maine's Daughter In Training The Widow's Game America's Heroine Declaration of Conscience The First Female Cold Warrior The Wilted Rose Retirement Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

PATRICIA WARD WALLACE is a Professor of United States History at Baylor University. Politics of Conscience is her seventh book. Her other works include The Threat of Peace: James F. Byrnes and the Council of Foreign Ministers.

Reviews

Basing this biography on numerous interviews with Smith, with her former colleagues, and on research of Smith's official and personal papers, Wallace reveals a fuller picture. Well written and insightful, Wallace's book will be the standard biography of a woman significant to women's history as well as U.S. political history.
*Library Journal*

Wallace has done sound research and has an admirably skeptical approach to evidence.
*Kirkus Reviews*

Wallace conducted many interviews with Smith, but her account is objective.
*Publishers Weekly*