| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring 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. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1: The pygmalion years -- Do I dare? -- Crossroads of a million private lives -- False starts -- Deceptions -- Seduction at the Algonquin -- Love and death in the year America came apart -- Failing up -- The New York family -- "I'll make you a star" -- Hiding out at Woodstock -- Playing house -- Fear of feminism -- Women helping women -- Redpants and regrets -- Secret of Grey Gardens -- Fighting Irish women -- Kissinger and the kitchen wars -- Stepping off the pedastal -- pt. 2: The Passages years -- Lovebirds -- Birthing Passages -- Fear of failure or fear of success? -- Fatal attraction -- Power fever -- Murdoch makes his move -- For the love of editors -- The mission that found me -- Separations -- Discovering Mohm -- A passage for keeps -- Finding a new voice at Vanity Fair -- Start-ups -- Two who changed the world -- The silent passage -- Lions and toads -- pt. 3: The bonus years -- The happiness prescription -- The Hillary decade -- Recurrance -- New millennium, new baby -- Losing Clay -- Losing myself -- All that jazz -- Coming back. |
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Pt. 1: The pygmalion years -- Do I dare? -- Crossroads of a million private lives -- False starts -- Deceptions -- Seduction at the Algonquin -- Love and death in the year America came apart -- Failing up -- The New York family -- "I'll make you a star" -- Hiding out at Woodstock -- Playing house -- Fear of feminism -- Women helping women -- Redpants and regrets -- Secret of Grey Gardens -- Fighting Irish women -- Kissinger and the kitchen wars -- Stepping off the pedastal -- Pt. 2: The Passages years -- Lovebirds -- Birthing Passages -- Fear of failure or fear of success? -- Fatal attraction -- Power fever -- Murdoch makes his move -- For the love of editors -- The mission that found me -- Separations -- Discovering Mohm -- A passage for keeps -- Finding a new voice at Vanity Fair -- Start-ups -- Two who changed the world -- The silent passage -- Lions and toads -- Pt. 3: The bonus years -- The happiness prescription -- The Hillary decade -- Recurrance -- New millennium, new baby -- Losing Clay -- Losing myself -- All that jazz -- Coming back. |
| Subject |
Sheehy, Gail.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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Sheehy, Gail. (OCoLC)fst00007239
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Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
9780062291691 (hardback) |
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0062291696 (hardback) |
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