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The dramatic inside history of the climb of women in elected office over the past quarter-century, from the pioneering creator of three-million-member EMILY's List - one of the very most influential players in today's political surroundings In 1985, aware of the near-total absence of women in Congress, Ellen R. Malcolm launched EMILY's List, a powerhouse politics organization that seeks to ignite change by getting women elected to office. The others is riveting record: Between 1986 - when there were only 12 Democratic women in the home and none in the Senate - and today, EMILY's List has helped elect 19 women Senators, 11 governors, and 110 Democratic women to the home. Incorporating exclusive interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Tammy Baldwin, among others, When Women Be successful delivers testimonies of some of the toughest politics contests of days gone by three decades, like the historic victory of Barbara Mikulski as the first Democratic girl elected to the Senate in her own right; the defeat of Todd Akin ("legitimate rape") by Claire McCaskill; and Elizabeth Warren's dramatic make an impression on incumbent Massachusetts senator Scott Dark brown. When Women Be successful includes Malcolm's own history - the high play of Anita Hill's intimate harassment testimony against Clarence Thomas and its own explosive results on women's engagement in electoral politics; the long evenings spent watching the polls after calendar months of dogged campaigning; the heartbreaking losses and unprecedented victories - but it is also a pause-resisting politics saga that may well lead up to the election of the first girl president of america.
