Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir

Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir

The senator from Missouri shares her â€œstraightforward, plainspoken, and at once deeply personal and thoroughly politicalâ€ (Publishers Weekly) story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexism, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemiesâ€”and finding joy along the way.

Claire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women with big plans. She earned a law degree and paid her way through school by working as a waitress. By 1982 Claire had set her sights on the Missouri House of Representatives. That door was slammed in her face, but Claire always kept pushingâ€”first as a prosecutor of arsonists and rapists and then all the way to the door of a cabal of Missouri politicians, who had secret meetings to block her legislation.

In this candid, lively, and forthright memoir, Senator McCaskill describes her uphill battle to become who she is today, from her failed first marriage to a Kansas City car dealerâ€”the father of her three childrenâ€”to her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as â€œa life partner.â€ She depicts her ups and downs with the Clintons, her long-shot reelection as senator after secretly helping to nominate a right-wing extremist as her opponent, and the fun of joining the growing bipartisan sisterhood in the Senate.

Unconventional, unsparing in its honesty, full of sharp humor and practical wisdom, and rousing in its defense of female ambition, â€œPlenty Ladylike is a powerful, unapologetic primer on the successful exercise of real power and what it takes to get it, keep it, and use it. This is a brilliant memoir that nearly explodes with encouragement for women on how to achieve their dreamsâ€ (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-08-11
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-08-11
Format	Kindle eBook

Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir

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