Martha Stewart - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor JOANN F. PRICE is a writing coach and author of Martha Stewart: A Biography (2007) and Barack Obama: A Biography (2008). Klappentext In our fame-crazed culture, she's known as a diva of domesticity, entrepreneur, media magnate, and a living brand. She has legions of fans and at the same time, many detractors. To her fans, Martha Stewart is a homemaking maven, the do-it-yourself doyenne. To her detractors, she's taken the American woman backwards, espousing an unobtainable ideal. Love her or hate her, this much is true: Martha Stewart is a self-made woman who has risen from her modest upbringing to become one of the most successful and wealthiest businesswomen in history. This intriguing biography provides a balanced portrait of Martha Stewart's professional and personal life, from her childhood as the oldest daughter in a family of six children to her brief career as a securities trader, to becoming a bestselling author in the 1980s and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in the 1990s. At the height of her power, Stewart was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock sale. Author Joanne F. Price documents the twists and turns of the trial, Stewart's five-month prison term, the highly publicized comeback following her release from prison in March 2005. Zusammenfassung This intriguing biography provides a balanced portrait of Martha Stewart's professional and personal life! from her childhood as the oldest daughter in a family of six children to her brief career as a securities trader! to becoming a bestselling author in the 1980s and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Joann Price, Joann F. Price, Price Joann F.
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2007
• EAN: 9780313338939
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33893-9
• No. of pages: 132
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Greenwood Biographies; Greenwood Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Business & Economics / General, Biography: business & industry, Business and Management, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, Business & management, Biography: business and industry, Popular Culture: Icons and Celebrities