Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir

Sissela Bok, Author Basic Books $17.5 (410p) ISBN 978-0-201-60815-1

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Bok's candid and engaging biography tells how her mother, a Swedish diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner, challenged notions about the role of women in society and became known as the ``conscience of the disarmament movement.'' (May)

Reviewed on: 09/21/1992
Release date: 08/01/1992
Genre: Nonfiction

Hardcover - 375 pages - 978-0-201-57086-1

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