Daring: My Passages - A Memoir

Zusatztext "[Sheehy's] exuberance leaps off the page as she maps out her professional highs - interviews with world leaders! her best-seller Passages - against the backdrop of a failed first marriage and her decades-long relationship with New York magazine founder Clay Felker. A-" Informationen zum Autor Gail Sheehy is the author of seventeen books! including the classic New York Times bestseller Passages ! named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress. A multiple-award-winning literary journalist! she was one of the original contributors to New York magazine and has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. A popular lecturer! Sheehy was named AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving in 2009. Klappentext The author of the New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir. Candid! insightful! and powerful! Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of Gail Sheehy! a writer who dared to blaze a trail in a "man's world!" becoming one of the groundbreaking writers at New York magazine along with such stellar journalists as Tom Wolfe! Gloria Steinem! and Jimmy Breslin. Sheehy dared to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protestors in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to break the glass ceiling in a media world fueled by testosterone! killer competition! and grit. Daring: My Passages is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy's tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker! the charismatic creator of New York magazine. Sheehy reflects on desire! ambition! and wanting it all. Fascinating and no-holds-barred! her memoir is a testament to guts! resilience! smarts! and offers a bold perspective on all of life's passages. Zusammenfassung 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. Candid! insightful! and powerful! Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel. Always on the cutting edge of social issues! Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a “man’s world.” Daring is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy’s tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker! the charismatic creator of New York magazine. As well! Sheehy recounts her audacious pursuit and intimate portraits of many twentieth-century leaders! including Hillary Clinton! Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush! and the world-altering attraction between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sheehy reflects on desire! ambition! and wanting it all—career! love! children! friends! social significance—and lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes! the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent! liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness! even in the shadow of illness. Now stronger than ever! Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to today’s young women. Her fascinating! no-holds-barred story is ...

Product details

• Authors: Gail Sheehy
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9780062344069
• ISBN: 978-0-06-234406-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Educators