TY - BOOK ID - 137399184 TI - Renegade for peace and justice : a memoir of political and personal courage PY - 2008 SN - 1282991795 9786612991790 0742565653 9780742565654 0742558444 9780742558441 9780742558441 0742558444 PB - Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network, DB - UniCat KW - Legislators KW - African American women legislators KW - Lee, Barbara, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137399184 AB - Hailed as an honest, candid political memoir in a genre more often characterized by slick, self-serving campaign biographies, this book captures Barbara Lee's extraordinary life and political career from her early upbringing in El Paso, Texas, through her years in Oakland, California, with the Black Panther Party, to her service in the U.S. Congress. In a new Afterword to the paper edition, Lee pays tribute to the Congressional Black Caucus, for which she serves as chair during the 111th Congress, and reflects on the challenges that continue to face our nation at home and abroad. ER -