Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976
Regular price
€62.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Alan H. Levy
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
American History
Author_Alan H. Levy
automatic-update
Biography
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGH
Category=DNBH
Category=HBJK
Category=HBLW
Category=JPQ
Category=NHK
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Feminism
Language_English
Legal and Political History
PA=Available
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
softlaunch
Twentieth Century History
Women's history
Women's rights
Product details
- ISBN 9781498530132
- Weight: 449g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Oct 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976: Political Passions, Women’s Rights, and Congressional Battles, by Alan H. Levy, marks the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Abzug was one of woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. Levy traces the New York City world of Russian-Jewish immigrants into which Abzug was born. He then examines her education through Columbia Law School, her marriage, and her early work both as a labor attorney and as an advocate for many controversial causes, including that of an African-American falsely accused of raping a white woman in Jim Crow Era Mississippi. Levy studies Abzug’s work for nuclear disarmament, her activism against the Vietnam War, and her successful bid for Congress in 1970. From there, the biography details the myriad of issues with which Abzug grappled as a Member of Congress from 1971 to 1977, and ends with her close loss to Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1976. A second book, studying the rest of Abzug’s life from 1976 to 1998, is to follow.
Alan H. Levy is professor of American history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania where he has taught modern American history for 30 years.
