The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey

In 2000, she was awarded a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. She shared in the 2008 Pulitzer Prize awarded to the Post staff for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. Downey was a reporter for The Washington Post from 1988 to 2008, winning press association awards for her business and economic reporting. Downey is also the author of 'The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins,' which was published in 2009, and was named one of the best biographies of the year by the American Library Association, Library of Congress and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

She wrote the book's first chapter, which detailed the many warnings that were issued to business executives and government officials about the looming problems in the mortgage market, but which were ignored. not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character. Written with a wit that echoes Frances Perkinss own, award-winning journalist Kirstin Downey. She previously was employed as a writer and investigator for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, whose report became a New York Times bestseller. Kirstin Downey talked about her book The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (Nan A. Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive anddare I sayinspiring new biography of Perkins. The Woman Behind the New Deal audiobook, by Kirstin Downey. The woman behind the New Deal : the life and legacy of Frances Perkins : social security, unemployment insurance, and the minimum wage / Kirstin Downey.

She also serves as editor of FTC:WATCH, a newsletter that follows the Federal Trade Commission and the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Kirstin Downey recently completed a biography of Queen Isabella of Castile, which is being published by Random House on October 28, 2014. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDRS Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience is written by Kirstin Downey and published by Anchor.

The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey