Letter to the World

Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century

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Susan Ware

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In wanting to think through modern women's history, Susan Ware found herself drawn to seven larger-than-life women who influenced not only their professions—politics, journalism, anthropology, acting, sports, dance, and music—but also the way women saw themselves and their options in life. Ware recovers the people behind the legends of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Mead, Katharine Hepburn, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Martha Graham, and Marian Anderson in compelling life stories. She looks at how they created their persona, how they kept themselves in the public eye, and how they did so for so long. She also speaks to how these women balanced their personal lives—choosing lovers and mates and deciding whether to have children. In the choices they made and the success of those choices are lessons relevant to contemporary working women. As part of living exceptional and unconventional lives, they gave other women the ability to desire beyond the limits imposed on women and allowed them to dream and strive for lives of independence and fulfillment.

Author Biography:

Susan Ware lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. She is the author of Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism (Norton) and editor of Notable American Women, Vol. 5.

Release date Australia

June 17th, 1998

Author

Susan Ware

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

370

Dimensions

140x216x21

ISBN-13

9780393343212

Product ID

19341370

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