Beate Sirota Gordon: 1 book
The Only Woman in the Room
A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
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 constitution; how she almost single-handedly ensured that...
