September 29, 2000

Lynne Cheney, Feminist Intellectual?

By ELAINE SHOWALTER

Academics may not always be completely up-to-date on political personalities, but there can't be many who have had to be filled in on Lynne V. Cheney, wife of Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney. As head of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993, and as author of several controversial books about political correctness and declining standards in American higher education (most recently, Telling the Truth, in 1995), Lynne Cheney has long had name

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