MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewWith rare exceptions, the 45 other women subjects appear in Sobel’s book only as emanations. Sobel names her chapters for them, but tells little of their stories beyond that ... Sobel writes elegantly about science, unspooling Curie’s pursuits in the lab like a mystery. She leaves us less clear how Curie herself viewed the position of women in science.
Caitlin Moscatello
MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewCaitlin Moscatello began reporting on women running in the 2018 midterm elections soon after the women’s marches of 2017. See Jane Win is her celebration of their triumph ... Moscatello, a freelance journalist, captures the big trends of the midterms, most important among them that women won because they ran contrary to the old advice ... Her account is most vivid in the sections that follow Abigail Spanberger, one of the natural-born politicians to emerge in the midterms, who won a congressional seat in the Virginia district ... With the other three candidates, Moscatello relies on what they told her rather than what she sees. Voters and activists appear little if at all in this book, even though in these midterms, they too were mostly women. And she comes at her topic as a champion of a particular kind of woman, the Democratic kind, which leaves an overly glossy finish ... Moscatello does not explore the experiences of any Republican candidates. That’s understandable; the incoming House class had a record number of women yet only one Republican woman. But American politics will never get to gender equity on the backs of Democratic women alone.
Salena Zito, Brad Todd
MixedThe New York TimesThis sympathetic frustrating book is part of the Great Correction, the post-2016 attempt to understand the Trump voters whom the journalists, strategists and others the authors lump together as \'the professional left\' failed to appreciate before Election Day.
