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Daughter of an expatriate American ship captain, KIRSTIN DOWNEY spent her childhood, until college, moving from place to place around the globe. After stints at smaller newspapers, including the San Jose Mercury, she joined the staff of the Washington Post in 1988, where she has won a variety of regional press association awards for her business and economics coverage. In 2000, she received a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University and took a year's leave of absence from the Washington Post to study the economic and workforce history of the U.S., where she stumbled across the name Frances Perkins. The biography is... Read More
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Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted...
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Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $35.00
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted... Read more >
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Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: February 23, 2010
Price: $16.95
Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted... Read more >
