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The Powerful Women Who Made History

Intelligence Squared

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The Lord, I Like the Lord

Many of the women in my book are powerful mothers or wives, of sons. And some of them are just extraordinary. I mean, take Cossam, for example, you know, in the 17th century. The Ottoman Empire was dominated by a woman that we've never heard of - she starts life as an enslaved woman and ends up as the inputs of this vast empire. Well, I like the Lord, is how you put at the beginning of each chapter the number, the beat section, how public the population is, roughly, at the time. You obviously write so acutely about how they handed down to families. How does this change as the population gets bigger? There were so

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