Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun's Historic Senate Campaign by Jeannie Morris
English | September 8th, 2015 | ISBN: 1572841761 | 384 pages | EPUB (True/Retail Copy) | 1.52 MB
In 1992, Carol Moseley Braun became the first, and to this day only, African-American woman elected to the US Senate. Long before this historic victory, which Barack Obama would later say prefigured his own path to the Senate and presidency, veteran Chicago journalist Jeannie Morris saw an incredible opportunity. Here was a bold and politically courageous candidate, a feminist and sensible progressive with whom Morris quickly identified on a personal level. Morris joined the campaign to write the official story of a brilliant retail politician with a charismatic smile. What happened next resulted in a story that went well beyond what Morris could have imagined.