Sublime

Tengo los hombres, el apoyo de Estados Unidos, de los exiliados guatemaltecos. Y, por supuesto, el Ejército sólo espera que me levante para plegarse a la liberación. —No se olvide del apoyo de la United Fruit y de Somoza, que también cuentan —le recordó el Generalísimo, sonriendo—. ¿Para qué le hace falta el mío, además? —Porque usted es el aval má

She was Melissa’s oldest, boldest friend. They had gone to the same primary school. Hazel worked in advertising. She had a wide and glamorous smile behind which was an oft-foul tongue, and long, bouncing, half-French, half-Ghanaian curls falling down her back, the most beautiful, the most envied of their schoolgirl pack, the one the boys always wen

With its forty-five electoral votes (more than three times as many as California), New York was a major player in presidential politics. In the sixteen presidential elections since the Civil War, a New Yorker had led the Democratic ticket eight times.*

It was not the first time that motherhood provided the female version of civic virtue.

But Thatcher was ready when fate intervened. Who else could offer her combination of energy, decisiveness, experience as a housewife, and gift for communicating to become one of the most enduring political leaders of the twentieth century?

‘Few expected greatness of her until she was nearly fifty.’ Even the few people who strongly believed in her abilities never imagined she might be Prime Minister, let alone a global stateswoman who would play a role in ending the Cold War.

Marie Souvestre, the founder and headmistress, was the daughter of the French philosopher and novelist Émile Souvestre. A committed feminist, she believed passionately in educating women to think for themselves, to challenge accepted wisdom, and to assert themselves. These were subversive doctrines to patriarchal Victorians, yet Allenwood succeeded

Since Virginia was the most populous colony, it seemed logical that the perfect commander would hail from that state. Rich and ambitious John Hancock hoped to use the Congress presidency as his springboard to the top military job, but even some fellow New Englanders believed that, for the sake of political unity, a Virginian made eminently good sen