Intelligent Talk Television: Women in Politics: Madeleine Kunin

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Women in Politics: Madeleine Kunin (#142)

Madeleine Kunin is a former three-term governor of Vermont and Ambassador to Switzerland. She also served as U.S. deputy secretary of education. Ms. Kunin is currently the Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont, where she lectures on history and women's studies. She is the author of Living a Political Life, The Big Green Book, and, most recently, Pearls, Politics and Power, an insider's view of the role of women in politics.

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Women in Politics: Madeleine Kunin (#142)

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