UP THE CAPITOL STEPS: A Woman's March to the Governorship (Signed)

Roberts, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0870716107 / ISBN 13: 9780870716102

Published by Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2011

About this Item

1st printing. Glossy pictorial wraps. 438pp. Illus. Notes. Index. Signed (signed only) by Roberts on the title page. Fine, like new.

Seller Inventory # SHEL1709

Bibliographic Details

• Title: UP THE CAPITOL STEPS: A Woman's March to the Governorship (Signed)
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press, Corvallis
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870716107
• ISBN 13: 9780870716102
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: q
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Oregon
  • Women

About this title

Synopsis

"Up the Capitol Steps" is a personal and political memoir by Oregon's first (and only) woman governor, one of only 34 women who have served as state chief executives in the history of the United States. Barbara Roberts offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of a woman's life in politics and aims to "demystify" leadership by telling the story of her own unlikely rise to power.

The mother of an autistic child before the advent of special education, Roberts began her life in public service as an advocate for the rights of children with disabilities. She documents her expanding political career from school board member to legislator to Secretary of State and finally, Governor. In this gripping and poignant memoir, hotly contested elections and tough policy decisions are interspersed with intimate details of personal ups and downs. Throughout, Roberts reveals the warmth and humor that show the "real" person behind the politician.

Only the third published memoir by a woman head-of-state, Up the Capitol Steps is "a very significant contribution to Oregon history, the history of women in politics, and especially the history of women governors," according to series editor Melody Rose. Roberts' autobiography captures a period of our nation's political history and a view of women's expanding role in government that will bring new understanding to the term, "social revolution."

About the Author

Barbara Roberts was Governor of Oregon from 1991-1995 and Oregon Secretary of State from 1985-1991. She was Director of the State and Local Government Executive Programs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and held a senior fellowship at the Harvard Women and Public Policy Program. Before her retirement in 2005, she served for five years as Associate Director of Leadership at Portland State University's Hatfield School of Government.