Salon.com > Ruthie Ackerman http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The female zealot http://www.salon.com/2006/11/15/swanee_hunt/ http://www.salon.com/2006/11/15/swanee_hunt/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:28:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2006/11/15/swanee_hunt Whether working with mothers in war-scarred Bosnia or bringing together the world's brightest students as the director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Swanee Hunt has devoted her life to increasing the participation of women in politics and peace activism around the globe. In her new memoir, "Half-Life of a Zealot," Hunt retraces the steps -- from her Southern Baptist upbringing in Texas, through the trials of her first marriage, to her life in diplomacy -- that shaped her as a woman, a leader and a mother, and drove her to politics.

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