On the superiority of women in the exercise of power.

Under the editorial direction of biographer Anne Fulda, a number of historians and journalists explore the exceptional lives of selected women leaders, endeavoring not only to paint portraits of their political and private lives, but most importantly, to examine for the first time how they exercised power on a daily basis, and especially how they skillfully navigated the management of major crises.
This unprecedented book destroys, once and for all, the myth that men are supposedly predisposed for public affairs. Twenty powerful women leaders, from Cleopatra to Elizabeth II.