The Firsts
The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

"“We have the conviction,” she boomed. “We have the political courage.” And, she said, “We have each other.”" "What would the long-term impact of 2018 be? Did the election of a gay Native American woman in Kansas, and a Black woman in a nearly all-white suburb of Chicago, and a Hispanic woman in a he......more

I read in English but this review is written in Bahasa Indonesia "It's not about diversity; it's about the fact that finally we are starting to become more representative. There's a difference," Mae Jemison the first female African American astronout... Suatu hari iseng membuka Kobo Store dan mene......more

My only complaint is that this book wasn’t 500 pages longer. Pls write a sequel......more

"The First" tells the story of the 116th Congress with the huge influx of freshman representatives including many women of different races and backgrounds after the 2018 election that gave the Democrats back the House of Representatives. The author is really ambitious in trying to follow 20 of the i......more

My favorite kind of book, so I relished it. Steinhauer does a great job of bringing to life the life of a new Congresswoman and treating them uniquely. I was delighted to read about my own, newly elected Congresswoman, Susan Wild who movingly spoke on the floor about the need for improved mental hea......more