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Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

Fort, Adrian

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresPolitical Biographies

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 1250042674
ISBN13: 9781250042675
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jan 21 2014
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A new biography of Nancy Astor, American socialite and social crusader who blazed a trail through British society amid two World Wars

In 1919, Nancy Astor became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons--she was not what had been expected. Far from a virago who had suffered for the cause of female suffrage, Lady Astor was already near the center of the ruling society that had for so long resisted the political upheavals of the early twentieth century, having married into one of the richest families in the world. She wasn't even British, but the daughter of a famous Virginian family, and fiercely proud of her expatriate ancestry. But her moral drive was strong, and she would utilize her position of privilege and influence to blow a bracing American wind into what she regarded as the stuffy corners of British politics.

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