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5.5 x 8.5 Paperback |
ISBN: 9781598008753 |
$12.95 |
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As more women become interested in seeking the presidency in the 2008 election, the name of Dr. Dixy Lee Ray comes quickly to mind, primarily because her longtime friend, co-author, and confidant, Lou Guzzo, believed her to be eminently qualified to run the nation from the Oval Office. Because of her great expertise in the scientific arena, both President Ford and President Reagan, who had become her good friends, wanted her in the White House as their primary science adviser. With her extraordinary knowledge and experience in the field of energy, she could have helped both Presidents overcome the severe problems the U.S. encountered in all phases of energy production. However, the politicos in the Ford and Reagan camps argued against her because of her unwillingness to compromise with principle and because the news media disliked her association with the nuclear industry as onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
With Guzzo as her campaign chairman, Dr. Ray won election as the first Governor of Washington State, serving from 1977 to 1981.
This book was to have been the third in the series of manuscripts Dr. Ray co-authored with Guzzo. The first two, “Trashing the Planet” and “Environmental Overkill,” were national best-sellers. This one had been in preparation when Dixy fell ill and died early in 1994. At her death, a grieving Guzzo put the manuscript on the shelf, there to stay, or so he thought. When friends coaxed him years later to revive the manuscript, he edited it and gave it the title of “She Should Have Been President.”
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Dixy Lee Ray was one of a kind --- an enormously gifted, intelligent human being with an incredible memory and an IQ in the clouds. At various times in her life, she was also lovable and caring, remarkably generous, and ingenious on one hand and impatient with trivia, intolerant with the ignorant, and fiercely private on the other.
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About With Lou Guzzo
Guzzo is one of the most prolific writers of the day. This is his 25th published book as editor, author, or co-author. He has at least three more completed works awaiting publication, with three more nearing completion. Because of his penchant for writing, his friends have dubbed Guzzo as a modern-day "Grandpa Moses of Literature." In addition to the books he has written, he writes a commentary seven days each week for his website, www.louguzzo.com. He has also been a speech writer, a speaker on the national lecture circuit, and a teacher of journalism and creative writing at two universities. Coupled with his early experience as a musician, composer, arranger, and orchestrator, any one can see why he is often referred to as a Renaissance Man.
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