Ellen Fitzpatrick on 'The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency'
The 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton marks the latest in a string of two hundred women who have tried for the top office in the land, starting with a campaign back in 1872. Historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells us how the campaigns of Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith and Shirley Chisholm can inform this year's election.
Ellen Fitzpatrick is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire and author of "The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency." She spoke March 24, 2016 at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston. Event recorded by WBUR.
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