When Ross Perot passed away in 2019, besides his many accomplishments that he made during his lifetime the one most people remember is that he ran for president in 1992 against the incumbent George H. W. Bush and Democratic Challenger William Jefferson Clinton.
But what few people remember is that the conservative wing of the Republican party and the influence of one feisty newspaper publisher with whom the 'Democrats despised and the Republicans feared' mounted an all out assault against President George H. W. Bush for abandoning the Reagan, Goldwater conservative values back early in the Presidency. The leader of this movement is one that called President Reagan Ron. And held a private meeting with him to tell him what the President was doing wrong.
Meg Heckman has written a straightforward always right and never left leaning of a newspaper publisher whom Pat Buchanan had labeled 'the Political Godmother.'
Nancy (Nackey) Scripps Loeb grow up in the newspaper industry. Her grandfather as Meg Heckman points out was one of the trifecta of newspaper publishers. She married than soon divorce to marry William Loeb a newspaper publisher. Their paper the Manchester Union set up the conservative voice in the United States. For New Hampshire held the first in the nation primary since 1917. Those wanna be presidental candidates had better say the right things when they are in New Hampshire.
Nancy Scripps Loeb continued to be an advocate for the conservative values even when tragedy struck not once but twice one time when she became paralyzed from the chest down and the second when her husband William Loeb died. The Boston newspaper began to write the obituary of the conservative movement but according to this insightful political biography Nancy Scripps Loeb show herself to be a fighter for the cause.

The author does an excellent job in capturing the quintessential Nancy (Nackey) Scripps Loeb.