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Book

Resistance : how women saved democracy from Donald Trump

Call Number

  • 305.42 R8963 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Physical Description

xiv, 400 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insider's look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more. In a compelling narrative, bookended by Donald Trump's 2016 victory and his 2020 defeat, Rubin delivers an absorbing analysis of the women's counter-Trump revolution. Resistance tracks a set of dynamic women voters, activists and politicians who rose up when Donald Trump took the White House and fundamentally changed the political landscape. From the first Women's March the day after Trump's inauguration to the Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms to the flood of female presidential candidates in 2020 to the inauguration of Kamala Harris, women from across the ideological spectrum entered the political arena and became energized in a way America had not witnessed in decades. They marched, they organized, they donated vast sums of cash, they ran for office, they made new alliances. And they defeated Donald Trump. Democratic women candidates learned that they could win in large numbers, even in red districts. Black women voters in 2020 surged in Georgia and in suburbs in key swing states. Women across the country voted in greater numbers than in any previous election, flipped the Senate, and ensured victory for the first female Vice President in the nation's history. While Democrats recorded impressive victories, Republican women delivered critical victories of their own. From the White House to Congress, from activists to protestors, from liberals to conservatives, Resistance delivers the first comprehensive portrait of women's historic political surge provoked by the horror of President Trump. This is the indelible story of how American women transformed their own lives, vanquished Trump, secured unprecedented positions of power and redefined US politics decades to come. Resistance is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the role women played in redesigning modern politics.

Contents

  • The nightmare begins
  • What went wrong?
  • The resistance takes root
  • March forward
  • The first big battles of 2017
  • Warm-up elections for 2018
  • Republican women chart a new course
  • A new generation of Democratic women
  • The 2018 battles
  • A final curveball
  • The midterm game changer
  • Pelosi takes charge amid a red state backlash
  • Can women run both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue?
  • The electability/likability trap
  • The debates
  • Impeachment
  • And then there were none
  • Forging a feminist ticket
  • The pitch to women
  • Race to the finish
  • How it happened
  • Congress is a different story
  • 2020 changed politics for women
  • Women change laws and politics.

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