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Daring : my passages / Gail Sheehy.
Van Pelt Library PN4874.S464 A3 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehy, Gail.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sheehy, Gail.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Women journalists--United States--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- My passages
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]
- Summary:
- "The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her ... memoir, a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking 'girl' journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times"-- Provided by publisher.
- Relating the story of her unconventional life, the author of the self-help classic "Passages" recounts her challenges and victories as a groundbreaking female journalist in the 1960s, reflects on ambition, and shares her own major life passages.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Pygmalion Years
- Chapter 1 Do I Dare? 3
- Chapter 2 Crossroads of a Million Private Lives 16
- Chapter 3 False Starts 29
- Chapter 4 Deceptions 41
- Chapter 5 Seduction at the Algonquin 50
- Chapter 6 Love and Death in the Year America Came Apart 55
- Chapter 7 Failing Up 67
- Chapter 8 The New York Family 80
- Chapter 9 "I'll Make You a Star" 92
- Chapter 10 Hiding Out at Woodstock 103
- Chapter 11 Playing House 116
- Chapter 12 Fear of Feminism 125
- Chapter 13 Women Helping Women 136
- Chapter 14 Redpants and Regrets 139
- Chapter 15 Secret of Grey Gardens 150
- Chapter 16 Fighting Irish Women 157
- Chapter 17 Kissinger and the Kitchen Wars 168
- Chapter 18 Stepping off the Pedestal 182
- Part 2 The Passages Years
- Chapter 19 Lovebirds 197
- Chapter 20 Birthing Passages 210
- Chapter 21 Fear of Failure or Fear of Success? 222
- Chapter 22 Fatal Attraction 235
- Chapter 23 Power Fever 241
- Chapter 24 Murdoch Makes His Move 254
- Chapter 25 For the Love of Editors 270
- Chapter 26 The Mission That Found Me 280
- Chapter 27 Separations 292
- Chapter 28 Discovering Mohm 298
- Chapter 29 A Passage for Keeps 310
- Chapter 30 Finding a New Voice at Vanity Fair 316
- Chapter 31 Start-ups 330
- Chapter 32 Two Who Changed the World 341
- Chapter 33 The Silent Passage 359
- Chapter 34 Lions and Toads 374
- Part 3 The Bonus Years
- Chapter 35 The Happiness Prescription 381
- Chapter 36 The Hillary Decade 392
- Chapter 37 Recurrence 406
- Chapter 38 New Millennium, New Baby 414
- Chapter 39 Losing Clay 420
- Chapter 40 Losing Myself 429
- Chapter 41 All That Jazz 442
- Chapter 42 Coming Back 449.
- Notes:
- "A memoir"--Jacket.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062291691
- 0062291696
- OCLC:
- 889426603
- Online:
- Cover image
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