Helen Gahagan Douglas—The Pink Lady
She was a three-term Congresswoman, Broadway star, Nixon nemesis and lover of LBJ. But a brutal Senate campaign waged by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon ended her career as an elected official in 1950. That’s when Nixon and his henchmen dubbed Douglas “The Pink Lady” and, with the help of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, took her down with the McCarthyist anti-Red hysteria that was sweeping Hollywood. Author Sally Denton tells Helen Gahagan Douglas’ story in this long-overdue political biography.
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She was a three-term Congresswoman, Broadway star, Nixon nemesis and lover of LBJ. But a brutal Senate campaign waged by Republican Congressman Richard Nixon ended her career as an elected official in 1950. That’s when Nixon and his henchmen dubbed Douglas “The Pink Lady” and, with the help of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover, took her down with the McCarthyist anti-Red hysteria that was sweeping Hollywood. Author Sally Denton tells Helen Gahagan Douglas’ story in this long-overdue political biography.
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