The Girl in the Yellow Pantsuit Essays on Politics, History, and Culture

by Balint, Becca

• ISBN13: 9781950584376
• ISBN10: 1950584372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-06-14
• Publisher: Green Writers Press
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Summary

The Girl in the Yellow Pantsuit collects the best-loved of Becca Balint’s weekly columns on politics, history and culture. Becca’s curiosity, humor, and deep affection for her subjects provide readers with new ways of examining trenchant problems. Her clear-eyed perspectives on subjects as wide-ranging as American politics, global affairs, education policy, and parenthood challenge us to think more deeply about our own place in the world and the impact we want to leave. Balint has chosen to organize her columns around the core values that she believes are essential to good leadership. In her introduction she writes, “The spirit of our work matters. Our daily interactions with others matter. Intentionally living our values cannot be an afterthought—it must be a central part of our work. Our leadership comes from within and is shown to others not just in times of crisis and uncertainty but day in and day out in the way we treat colleagues and neighbors.” Balint suggests that “being audacious, daring, and vulnerable is an essential part of inviting others to create a vision of a better world that works for all of us and to join the effort to build it.”

Author Biography

Becca Balint is a stateswoman, current candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, and President Pro Tempore of the Vermont Senate. After two decades teaching history and civics to middle-schoolers and community college students, Becca won her debut race for state senate in 2014. She has been elected four times despite primary challenges in every race. In 2018, she was elected by the Senate democratic caucus to serve as majority leader, and in 2020, she was unanimously elected by the entire senate to serve as President Pro Tempore. She is an avid outdoorswoman and motorcyclist.