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Plenty Ladylike
Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir | Claire McCaskill
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The senator from Missouri shares her straightforward, plainspoken, and at once deeply personal and thoroughly political (Publishers Weekly) story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexism, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemiesand 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 pushingfirst 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 dealerthe father of her three childrento her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as a life partner. 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, Plenty 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 dreams (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In).
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Daisey
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In a productive start to my day, I finished this audiobook and stopped to vote on my way to school. McCaskill comes across as straightforward and moderate as she describes successes and challenges throughout her career in Missouri politics.

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Bklover I‘m in Illinois but I like Claire! (edited) 6y
LoverofLit Voting for her today! 💪💪💪❤❤❤ 6y
sprainedbrain My fingers are crossed for her! 🤞🏻 6y
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Mbeach
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Love, love, love this book! Cannot say enough good things about this book - story line, tone, format of presentation, ideas, etc. I appreciated her frankness and willingness to share her triumphs and defeats with the readers.

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GinEyre22
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#readingresolutions Day 1: Book Resolutions
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GinEyre22
Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir | Claire McCaskill
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This month's book stats:
18 total books
13 Fiction
5 non fiction
10 hard copy
7 ebooks
11 library books
5 books I own
7 by women
2 by/about POC
2 Non US writers

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GinEyre22
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#spookyoctober Day 10: Women in politics

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Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir | Claire McCaskill
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Catching up on #fallintobooks : Day 17, Difficult women