Kate Zernike
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, The Exceptions is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement-where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politics
They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession-angry voters gathering by the thousands to rail against bailouts and big government. Evoking the Founding Fathers, they called themselves the Tea Party. Within the year, they had changed the terms of debate in Washington, emboldening...