The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas

Acclaimed author Sally Denton brings to life every dimension of the extraordinary Helen Gahagan Douglas in The Pink Lady a compelling account of Douglass incomparable life as stage star politician and public intellectual. A three-term congresswoman who ran for the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon just thirty years after women gained the right to vote Douglas was also a Broadway star opera prima donna friend of FDR lover of LBJ and passionate New Dealer. Tagged The Pink Lady during a brutal 1950 Senate campaign waged by Nixon and brought down by the same McCarthyist anti-Red hysteria that was sweeping Hollywood Douglas is restored through Dentons rich narrative to her rightful place as a pioneer in American politics and torchbearer for progressive ideals.