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...effort left a sour taste. "We paid the penalty of being labeled a special-interest group," says Douglas Fraser, retired president of the United Auto Workers. Labor's all-out embrace also reinforced outdated expectations that its members would vote as a bloc. "The fact that people expect labor to deliver a unified vote is ridiculous," says Sam Fishman, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO. In 1964, 73% of labor households voted for L.B.J.; by the time Jimmy Carter ran for re-election in 1980, the Democrats' share of the union vote had dropped...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙Finding the Center, V.S. Naipaul ∙ "The Good War," Studs Terkel ∙The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser ∙ Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor
...Weaker Vessel took 12 years of research, although Fraser had written on British history before. She has penned biographies on James VI, James I and Charles II. Her biography of Mary Queen of Scots won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in 1969. At Oxford University, Fraser studied history, which taught her "form and structure." Even with her experience in publishing and research, Fraser still found problems in using sources for her latest book. "My ideal source would be a diary of an illiterate woman. You always have to try and find those silent voices...
...problem of high illiteracy among women in the 17th century concerns Fraser for another reason. "Like everyone interested in women's rights or progress, I believe that education is the key." Although her success as writer and historian no doubt owes much to her own education, she does not consider herself the "exception." She advises women to pursue their goals: "If you want to write, or be a journeyman, don't let anything change your mind. It's true that women need more will to overcome certain obstacles, which is unfair. But a writer, or anyone else...
...FRASER INDICATES that "the weaker vessel" was indeed a serious misnomer. While Fraser shows the suppression of women throughout history, her purpose is not propaganda...