01466cam a2200241 4500 517222856 TxAuBib 070313s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061138249 $25.95 006113824X $25.95 (OCoLC)16877 BTCTA BTCTA BAKER YDXCP OCO BUR IXA WMC TxAuBib Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 1943- Leading ladies : American trailblazers / Kay Bailey Hutchison. 1st ed. New York : Harper, 2007. xv, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. The good fight : women in the military -- First ladies : the hardest unpaid job in the world -- If there's a book you want to read : novelists and journalists -- A dream of the future : women's suffrage and civil rights -- Everything I discovered was new : women in medicine and public health -- Lifting the veil of nature : the Nobel Prize in science -- Curing social misery : the settlement house and peace movements -- Commitment overcomes adversity : the making of leaders. Presents biographical portraits of pioneering American women who overcame difficult obstacles to gain entry into male-dominated arenas, from medicine and politics to business and the media. Women United States Biography. TXHSP