is one of the ways in which it passes, people want her to be not often, and they want her to be abigail adams or courtesy of modern woman. talk about how strong she was, she made a 2000 mile journey from st. petersburg to paris with her 7-year-old sun, part way through she escaped converging, she pretends -- she is amazing. she was really resilient and survived a lot. she was sick all the time. as complicated a person, i think her insecurities is liberating. very serious, born for the nation, didn't play it. and having to feel that way, and didn't have to be this kind of american icon. she lost it herself, that is a kind of way. interferences who she was and something would be lost. and i am about attitude towards life. the paradox between her and accepting the constrictions of her life, and she wrote an account of that journey, and wants people to read in some ways, they wrote it, she wrote it because she wanted to be remembered and suggested she was worried about being forgotten. and stayed with me. any questions? >> revolutionary america -- you think that sort of historical blend -- [inaud

even women at the time who said consider the rights of women, remember ladies, abigail adams who was running the farm and educating her son one of them became a president later while john adams was away being a diplomat. an absolute exclusion of women from politics for a very long time and then we have a lot of informal barriers to women entering the political process, running for election. and so a lot of the book is about how we got from that moment about 30 years ago when therethere were serious barriers to women even though we had political rights to an hour we have 20 female senators and serious female candidates. >> madeleine albright said in february of this year there is a special place in hell for women who don't help each other. >> yes. that caused quite a storm, and i can understand why at the time. personally, i think any republican or democrat can admit that madeleine albright is a national treasure. she was the 1st female secretary of state. she did tremendous work for this country. so there is a line. she has been using this line for many years, and it is kind of like

more radical views into the new fabric of american history and the constitution didn't happen and abigail adams ultimately the wife of president john adams in march 1776 writes a letter to her husband remember the ladies i believe she is more politically inclusive but over time women do have a huge dimension in warfare whether the recruitment or counter recruitment or if it is the domestic peace spies are caught patents were part of the peace process so again it comes from a traditional background and we leave that out. alternately i would suggest what we see as conventional warfare and the approach to conflict imposed conflict bays that our experience in iraq and afghanistan leads us that is a false choice while that level of violence was higher in iraq and afghanistan? that we should rethink the fundamental assumptions the other is supposed conflict activities should have been simultaneously had you do that if you have not incorporated women? i don't know. but think about the logic we have that may be out of tune with the contemporary environment and what are the it applications is that consi

according to their son-in-law, george middleton, except john adams with his abigail, no man in public life was to have so equal a mate. books, articles, estes, a short film, and plays all hail belle la follette as the little woman behind the great man and only a few go so far as to recognize her as an important reformer in her own right. and no account until now reveals the depth and range of her interests, ambition, activism, and the contributions she made to meaningful progressive reform. believewo, don't everything you read or hear. upon her death in 1931, newspapers across the nation hailed belle la follette for her selflessness, her willingness to remain out of the public eye, .er contentment she had a masculine mind, one backhanded accolade. compliment.he old you do not sweat much for a fat girl. hers is an interesting career for those women of necessity must remain in the background. journalist, lincoln steffens, painted her as a self-sacrificing woman who surrendered her own ambition. "she could act, but she was content to beget actions. she played herself, the woman's part. g