The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts by Beate Sirota Gordon

The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts

Beate Sirota Gordon

177 pages paperback 1998

2 editions

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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution. The Only Woman in the Room chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a consti...

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