Nichola D. Gutgold is associate professor of communication at Penn State University, She is author of “Almost Madam President: Why Hillary Clinton ‘won’ in 2008,” (Lexington Books, 2009). The book contends that Clinton exercised a wide range of rhetorical options to become the first front-runner woman candidate for president. The book is a follow up to her 2006 book: “Paving the Way for Madam President” (Lexington Press, 2006). The book chronicles the lives of Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun. It considers the prospects of a woman president and examines the bids of the five women who ran for president of the U.S. between the years 1964-2004.

She is also author of “Seen and Heard: The Women of Television News” (Lexington Book, 2008) and co-author of a rhetorical biography of Elizabeth Dole that was published in 2004 by Praeger Press, titled “Elizabeth Hanford Dole: Speaking from the Heart.”

For more information, please visit www.nicholagutgold.com.