Of Mouse and Women

[MountainLaurel]

Great article on a new book by Karenna Gore Schiff, daughter of our former president. It sounds like a good one to check out.

Let's begin with a brief case study in how the cynical, superficial American media (that's us) can distort the lives of political figures and their families.

We are talking with Karenna Gore Schiff about her new book, "Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America." The smart, personable 32-year-old daughter of the Man Who Was Almost President tells us she wrote it as a kind of therapy, an antidote to the "punched-in-the-gut" feeling she got whenever she looked at the newspaper after the 2000 election.

Schiff says she was inspired to write "Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America" in part because of the cartoon "Mighty Mouse." (By Helayne Seidman For The Washington Post)
We nod. Seems perfectly understandable.

She also wrote the book, she says, because ever since she was a little girl, she has wished there were "more female faces in the historical pantheon." She remembers sitting at her desk at Arlington's Oakridge Elementary School, looking at the chart of the presidents on the wall and wondering why they were all male.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021002273.html