American Politics: A Conservative Report

Phyllis Schlafly

iun. 2016 · Creators Publishing

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Named one of the most influential women of the 20th Century, Phyllis Schlafly offers a unique and powerful voice to a wide range of topics within American politics. Schlafly's writings touch on social and political controversies from the roller coaster that is Obamacare to the pros and cons of common core education, all within her best columns from 2014.

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Phyllis Schlafly was born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart in St. Louis, Missouri on August 15, 1924. She received an A.B. from Washington University in 1944, a master's degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1945, and a J.D. from Washington University Law School in 1978. She organized grass-roots campaigns against Communism, abortion, and the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1958, she and her husband started the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation to educate Catholics on the dangers of Communism. Starting in 1967, she wrote a monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report. In 1972, she formed a volunteer organization called Stop ERA, which three years later became the Eagle Forum, to coordinate her campaigns. She wrote or edited over 20 books including Strike from Space, A Choice Not an Echo, The Power of the Positive Woman, Feminist Fantasies, The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It, Kissinger on the Couch, Child Abuse in the Classroom, and No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom. She died on September 5, 2016 at the age of 92.