THE WARRIOR QUEENS

by Antonia Fraser

MINI REVIEW

Frazer creates masterful, sweeping surveys of women in history and Warrior Queens is no exception. She starts with Queen Boudicea from 1st century Britain and builds her case from there all the way through to Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher. Her thesis: There have always been warrior queens and whether they get their power by inheritance or might, they have faced the same adoration and approbation from the beginning of time. I wish the book had been published more recently than 1988 so that Fraser would have written about Hillary Clinton. (Lily)