The definitive biography of the unpredictable, often infuriating, indefatigable American who became the first woman member of the British Parliament. 

          Nancy, Lady Astor was indisputably one of the most fascinating, influential and contradictory women of our times. As a famous beauty in her native Virginia, as the wife of millionaire William Waldorf Astor, as a pioneer of women’s suffrage, as the friend and confidante of George Bernard Shaw, above all as the first woman to be elected as a member of Parliament, she was in the forefront of historic social and political events for more than half a century.