Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mattingly, Doreen J.
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- politici, regeringsleiders, abortussen, LHBT, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens
- Description
- A feminist, an activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American culture wars. Tasked with bringing the views of special interest groups to the president, Costanza championed progressive causes even as Americans grew increasingly divided on the very issues for which she fought. In this book Mattingly chronicles Costanza's dramatic rise and fall as a public figure, from her initial popularity to her ultimate clashes with Carter and his aides. While Costanza challenged Carter to support abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights, and feminist policies, Carter faced increased pressure to appease the interests of emerging Religious Right.