Given the rise of third party politics in the US today as well as resurgence of immigration and bank regulation as political issues, Orr's biography has relevance beyond the bounds of Mary Lease's life. Orr's portrait of Lease provides an insightful analysis of a woman deeply engaged with a wide array of political issues, yet profoundly skeptical of the efficacy of the socalled ''political establishment.'' (Laura L. Lovett, Canadian Journal of History 52.1/2017) ukryj opis