| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Book Review

Madame Chair: The Political Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer. By Jean Miles Westwood. Edited by Linda Sillitoe. Foreword by Floyd A. O'Neill. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. vii + 230 pp. Illustrations, index. $34.95.)

Given what people think they know about Mormonism and Utah, Madame Chair, the autobiography of the late Jean Westwood, the first woman to serve as the national chair of a major American political party, will come as a great surprise to many. Not only was Westwood from Utah, where she developed her political skills, but also she attributed her fundamental political attitudes and even her methods to her Mormon upbringing. And to top it all off, it was the Democratic Party that she led, during the 1972 presidential campaign, as the choice of the liberal George McGovern.

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