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Mr. Book just finished A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics, by Juanita Tolliver.

This book will be published on January 14, 2025.

The title of this book gives the appearance that is just about a party that Diahann Carroll threw to serve as a fundraiser for Shirley Chisholm’s campaign in 1972. But, the book was far more than than that. The focus on the book was far more on the issues that Chisholm’s campaign faced in terms of racism and sexism and how those issues are still with us today.

This book did a great job balancing both the political times of 1972 and today’s world.

I give this book an A. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

Mr. Book finished reading this on September 25, 2024.