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Millicent Fenwick: Her Way

Amy Schapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick, the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman. Affectionately remembered as the pipe-smoking grandmother who served as the model for Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury character Lacey Davenport, Fenwick defied such simplistic expectations to become, in the words of Walter Cronkite, “the conscience of Congress.” Born in 1910 into comfortable circumstances, Fenwick faced tragedy at an early age when her mother was lost in the sinking of the Lusitania.  Following an upper-class childhood and a failed marriage, she began a fourteen-year career at Vogue magazine. In the 1960s, Fenwick became involved in the civil rights movement and took part in local and state politics in New Jersey. Blessed with striking good looks and a sharp wit, she cut a glamorous figure, rising quickly through the ranks of the state Republican Party at a time when most of her peers were retiring. When this colorful, outspoken figure—one of only five New Jersey women ever elected to Congress— went to Washington in 1974 at age sixty-four, her victory was portrayed by the media as a “geriatric triumph.”Schapiro’s extensive interviews with Fenwick’s son, Hugh, who granted her exclusive rights to Fenwick’s personal papers, oral histories, letters, and photographs, provide rare insight into the life and career of one of America’s most memorable politicians.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Millicent Fenwick: Her Way


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : B007NKN156

 

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"You couldn't invent Millicent Fenwick....She was unique. The best writers of fiction might have struggled to make her believable but they would have failed." former New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, president of Drew University Amy Schapiro has written the first biography of Millicent Fenwick, the popular and colorful New Jersey congresswoman.
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An engaging new biography by Amy Schapiro, Millicent Fenwick: Her Way charts the unlikely career of the ambassadorÆs daughter who became a pearl wearing, pipe smoking politico. , Vogue Four term Congress member Millicent Fenwick, the patrician descendant of Colonial landholders, hailed from wealthy Bernardsville, NJ.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Millicent Fenwick, Her Way Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2003 After a slow moving start, "Millicent Fenwick, Her Way" took off and quickly became one of the most absorbing biographies I have ever read. Amy Schapiro has written the wonderful story of the life of a truly great human being.
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Amy Schapiro's "Millicent Fenwick: Her Way" chronicles the unlikely rise of a distinguished public servant. What I enjoyed most about the book was the examination of Fenwick's troubled childhood. Born into a family of patrician background, her parents were on the RMS Lusitania when it was attacked by a German submarine.
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Millicent Fenwick: her way User Review Not Available Book Verdict. Four term Congress member Millicent Fenwick, the patrician descendant of Colonial landholders, hailed from wealthy...
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The first biography about former congresswoman and U.N. ambassador Millicent Fenwick was featured in a presentation by Amy Schapiro the author of Millicent Fenwick: Her Way (Rutgers University Press, 2003).
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Ms. Schapiro talked about her first book Millicent Fenwick: Her Way (Rutgers University Press; February 12, 2003). Ms. Fenwick began her career at Vogue magazine where she worked for fourteen ...
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Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm.

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