Saint Louis University history professor Donald Critchlow, who profiled Schlafly in his 2005 book, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, said the defeat of the amendment ...

Funeral arrangements are pending, he said. Schlafly rose to national attention in 1964 with her self-published book, “A Choice Not an Echo,” that became a manifesto for the far right.

“She knew that to win people over, she needed to show some respect to her opponents,” says Critchlow, whose book, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, was published in 2005.

Schlafly had first gained national attention with her 1964 book, “A Choice Not an Echo,” in which she attacked the Republican party’s East Coast establishment and made the case for Goldwater.

Schlafly's fight to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment has recently been dramatized in FX on Hulu's Mrs. America, with Cate Blanchett playing the STOP ERA founder.

In Schlafly’s words, her foes, Kolbert writes, “have always aimed at nothing less than the destruction of ‘civilization as we know it.’” It’s a charge so lofty that not even logic can ...

Phyllis Schlafly, played by Cate Blanchett in the new show 'Mrs. America', was a conservative activist who tried to stop the Equal Rights Amendment. Here's the true story about her life, her Stop ...

Long before "drain the swamp" became a MAGA meme, Schlafly had called out the "secret kingmakers" of the Republican establishment in her seminal book, "A Choice Not an Echo," way back in 1964.

Long before "drain the swamp" became a MAGA meme, Schlafly had called out the "secret kingmakers" of the Republican establishment in her seminal book, "A Choice Not an Echo," way back in 1964.

She was, in many senses, the perfect storm. Born in St. Louis in 1924, Phyllis McAlpin Stewart (later Phyllis Schlafly) was raised at the confluence of two seemingly disparate perspectives: Her ...

In her 2006 book, Women Who Make the World Worse (and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports), the late Kate O'Beirne wrote, "There is no ...

Blanchett read that book as well as many that Schlafly wrote herself. “The Phyllis Schlafly archive is enormous and I almost sank under the weight of it,” says the Australian actress, 50.