“Ten Girls with Taste” contest
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Warner Bros.
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Weiler, A. H.
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Where’s Elvis This Week? (TV show)
Where I Was From (Didion)
White, Kate
White Lightning (film)
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Whoopee (film)
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Wilder, Billy
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Wilson, Mr.
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Wolitzer, Meg
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Woman’s Day
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Wood, Doris
Wood, Natalie
Woodbury Business College
Woodward, Joanne
Working Woman
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Writer’s Rules, The (Brown)
YM
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ALSO BY GERRI HIRSHEY
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock
Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
For more than thirty years, Gerri Hirshey has worked as a features writer, columnist, reporter, and essayist at The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, and New York, among other publications. She has also written for O, The Oprah Magazine, More, The Nation, and Food & Wine. Beginning in the 1980s, Hirshey was the first female contributing editor to Rolling Stone—she wrote celebrity profiles of numerous artists, musicians, actors, authors, and fashion designers. She is the author of several books, including Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music, which is now in its seventh reprint incarnation, and We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock. Hirshey also collaborated with ex-Ronette Ronnie Spector on Spector’s one-woman cabaret show “Beyond the Beehive.” Hirshey lives in New York City with her husband, Mark Zwonitzer, a writer and documentary filmmaker; they have two young adult children. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
PREFACE: THE TROUBLE WITH HELEN
PROLOGUE: THAT WOMAN
Part One Arkansas
1. CLEO’S LAMENT
2. DADDY’S GIRL
3. FEAR ITSELF
4. ROADS TO NOWHERE
Part Two Los Angeles
5. WHAT FRESH HELL
6. SINKING IN
7. NOT PRETTY ENOUGH
8. THE KEPTIVE
9. DEAR MR. B …
10. HOW EVER DID SHE DO IT?
11. THE CURES
12. THE MARRIAGE PLOT
13. LET THE GAMES BEGIN
14. WHISKEY SOURS WITH CARL SANDBURG
15. FOR ALL THE SINGLE LADIES …
16. WE HAVE LIFTOFF!
17. ROADSHOW
18. MEET THE PRESS
Part Three New York
19. SHE’LL TAKE MANHATTAN
20. “HOW DARE YOU, HELEN GURLEY BROWN?”
21. IN WHICH COSMOPOLITAN GETS A MAKEOVER
22. WEEKDAYS IN THE PARK WITH DAVID
23. RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
24. BIG SISTER AND THE YOUTHQUAKE
25. A MARCH FORWARD, A FEW STEPS BACK
26. COSMO GOES TO HARVARD
27. ISN’T SHE LOVELY?
28. HIGH TIDE
29. VICTORY LAP
30. THIN ICE
31. A SORT OF CRISIS
32. THE POLITBURO MUST FALL
33. “WHAT THE HELL, WE’RE OFF TO KOREA!”
34. THE LONG GOODBYE
35. THE WOMEN: CAN WE TALK?
EPILOGUE: “TAKE ME TO THE OZARKS”
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ALSO BY GERRI HIRSHEY
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
Sarah Crichton Books
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2016 by Gerri Hirshey
All rights reserved
First edition, 2016
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hirshey, Gerri, author.
Title: Not pretty enough: the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown / Gerri Hirshey.
Description: First edition. | New York: Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007143 | ISBN 9780374169176 (Hardback) | ISBN 9780374712235 (Ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Brown, Helen Gurley. | Periodical editors—United States—Biography. | Editors—United States—Biography | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
Classification: LCC PN4874.B768 H57 2016 | DDC 070.5/1092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016007143
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