{"product_id":"9781476756776","title":"Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe senator from Missouri shares her “straightforward, plainspoken, and at once deeply personal and thoroughly political” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) story of embracing her ambition, surviving sexism, making a family, losing a husband, outsmarting her enemies—and finding joy along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire McCaskill grew up in a political family, but not at a time that welcomed women with big plans. She earned a law degree and paid her way through school by working as a waitress. By 1982 Claire had set her sights on the Missouri House of Representatives. That door was slammed in her face, but Claire always kept pushing—first as a prosecutor of arsonists and rapists and then all the way to the door of a cabal of Missouri politicians, who had secret meetings to block her legislation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this candid, lively, and forthright memoir, Senator McCaskill describes her uphill battle to become who she is today, from her failed first marriage to a Kansas City car dealer—the father of her three children—to her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as “a life partner.” She depicts her ups and downs with the Clintons, her long-shot reelection as senator after secretly helping to nominate a right-wing extremist as her opponent, and the fun of joining the growing bipartisan sisterhood in the Senate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnconventional, unsparing in its honesty, full of sharp humor and practical wisdom, and rousing in its defense of female ambition, “\u003ci\u003ePlenty Ladylike\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, unapologetic primer on the successful exercise of real power and what it takes to get it, keep it, and use it. This is a brilliant memoir that nearly explodes with encouragement for women on how to achieve their dreams” (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of \u003ci\u003eLean In\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028187758832,"sku":"9781476756776","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476756776_p0.jpg?v=1763609987","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476756776","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}