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SUMMARY:Tuesday Book Club: The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins\, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
DESCRIPTION:by Kirstin Downey \nRegister for our August Book Club meeting! \nFrom Goodreads: \nFrances Perkins is no longer a household name\, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research\, extensive archival materials\, new documents\, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members and friends\, this biography is the first complete portrait of a devoted public servant with a passionate personal life\, a mother who changed the landscape of American business and society. \nFrances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. As the first female cabinet secretary\, she spearheaded the fight to improve the lives of America’s working people while juggling her own complex family responsibilities. Perkins’s ideas became the cornerstones of the most important social welfare and legislation in the nation’s history\, including unemployment compensation\, child labor laws\, and the forty-hour work week. \nArriving in Washington at the height of the Great Depression\, Perkins pushed for massive public works projects that created millions of jobs for unemployed workers. She breathed life back into the nation’s labor movement\, boosting living standards across the country. As head of the Immigration Service\, she fought to bring European refugees to safety in the United States. Her greatest triumph was creating Social Security. \nWritten with a wit that echoes Frances Perkins’s own\, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey gives us a riveting exploration of how and why Perkins slipped into historical oblivion\, and restores Perkins to her proper place in history.
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