Abstract incorporates materials from the book jacket.
The Beauty Queen tells the story of Jeannie Laird Colter, former beauty queen, actress, and state representative from Manhattan, who decides to run for Governor of New York and to campaign on an anti-gay rights stand. She immediately attracts a large following of supporters, while she also makes bitter enemies who begin plotting against her life. At the same time, the possible exposure of a secret in her own family threatens her political future.
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