Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics

Susan Ware. Yale University Press, $27 (342pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04621-2

In this life of neglected New Deal politician Molly Dewson, the author ``makes a useful contribution to the history of American women's struggle for equality. . . . Ware's spotlight on Dewson widens to disclose wonderfully human views of FDR and Eleanor and brings to life many virtually forgotten feminists of an era that threatens to fade into gray,'' noted PW. Illustrated. (Oct.)

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