Kristie A Miller

Pat Schroeder: A Woman of the House (Women's Biography Series, V. 1.)

The leading feminist in Congress for nearly twenty-five years, Pat Schroeder was elected in 1972. Beloved by the left and despised by the right, she was at the forefront of a new wave of assertive women lawmakers who refused to play by the old rules. This is the first biography of the outspoken Colo...

Dating - Philosophy for Everyone: Flirting With Big Ideas

Progressing from the first flirtatious moment of eye contact to the selection of a “mate,” this enlighteningbook offers playful philosophical explorations of the dating game for anyone who has dated, is dating, or intends to date again. Offers amusing and enlightening philosophical insights into th...

Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman by Kristie Miller (2005-10-01)

Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944

"I choose to run, " declared Ruth Hanna McCormick in 1929, illustrating both her sense of fun in the parody of Calvin Coolidge and her lifelong commitment to partisan politics. Her life illustrates the opportunities and limitations that faced women participating in American politics during the early...

We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960

Until recently, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 was seen as a watershed in women's political history. The essayists in this collection argue that women's participation in political parties has been much more lengthy and varied than previously thought. Women's diff...

A Volume of Friendship: The Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Isabella Greenway, 1904-1953

"A remarkable correspondence between two quite formidable and wonderful women, who were also utterly enmeshed in women's traditional world as well as the public world."--Mary Logan Rothschild, co-author of Doing What the Day Brought: An Oral History of Arizona Women"[Kristie] Miller and [Robert] McG...

Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies (Modern First Ladies)

The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy of controve...