"Lopach and Luckowski reveal, among other insights, the paradoxes of Rankin's character: a champion for labor who exploited her own workers, a charmer who was difficult to work with, a person who had many acquaintances but few intimate friends."
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Western Historical Quarterly
"This account...offers a much-needed corrective to hagiographic treatments of Rankin. Certainly it affirms Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's adage that 'Well-behaved women seldom make history.'"
—Liette Gidlow, American Historical Review
"This definitive biography of the first woman elected to Congress explores her complexities and accomplishments."
—Notre Dame Magazine
"Jeannette Rankin is the most thoroughly researched book about Jeannette Rankin ever published."
—Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Winter 2006
"The most comprehensive examination yet of Rankin's complex personality, circumstances, and personal and political choices. . . . Readers will appreciate the complex personality that emerges from these pages."
—Oregon Historical Quarterly, 107:4