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Women in Politics
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June 2004
Compiled by Carole Elmore,
of Newnan-Coweta Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
Fiction
- Jorge Amado Pen, Sword, Camisole
- Book about the politicking that goes on when the respectable and
less-than-respectable ladies of Rio get together to thwart the appointment of
a Fascist to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
- Anonymous Primary Colors
- Book about politics with several strong female characters.
- Jeffery Archer The Prodigal Daughter
- Florentyna Kane has always wanted to be president, now just a step away is
the price she has to pay worth it?
- Jeffery Archer Shall We Tell the President?
- Continuing story after Florentyna Kane from The Prodigal Daughter has been
elected president.
- Thomas Berger Adventures of the Artificial Woman
- A guy makes a robot that is the perfect woman -- one with ambitions to become
the president of the United States.
- Roy Blout First Hubby
- A comic take on the family of the first woman president of the United States.
- Christopher Buckley No Way to Treat a First Lady
- Tale of a first lady who hits her philandering husband over the head with a
spittoon, killing him.
- Blayne Cooper and T. Novan Madam President
- Could a woman be elected twenty years from now who is an open lesbian and
affiliated with the Independent political party?
- Dianne Day Series featuring Fremont Jones
- Woman escapes an arranged marriage, opens a secretarial business and has a lawyer as a first client.
- Anne Faulk Holding Out
- An update of the story of Lysistrata who persuaded the women of Athens to
withhold sex from their husbands to end a war.
- Susan Isaac Close Relations
- "What woman divorces a well-to-do doctor and goes into politics?"
- Jayne Krentz Dawn in Eclipse Bay
- Has a secondary plot featuring the soon-to-be-ex wife of a hopeful politician who has been disgraced when it is revealed he has a penchant for ladies' lingerie and high heels -- who throws her had in the ring.
- MiriamGrace Monfredo Seneca Falls Series
- Series featuring a 1860s feminist librarian who helps out the local sheriff.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips First Lady
- Romantic tale of the wife of an assassinated president who eventually becomes
the first woman president.
- Ellen Emerson White The President's Daughter, White House Autumn and The Road Home (President's Daughter series)
- A teenage girl's mom is elected president.
Non-Fiction
- Helen Thomas Front Row at the White House
- Reporter who covered the First Ladies as well as the Presidents.
- Marilyn Quayle The Campaign
- Writes about her husband run for office.
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