I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone. The reason I gave it three stars rather than five is simply that our group quickly came to the same conclusions. Because we all agreed on so many aspects, the discussion was more limited than I had expected.

One person walked into the room and said, 'I just didn't like her much'. We have met as a book club for many years but have never read a biography. It's very different, of course, from fiction or memoir type nonfiction. We had a fairly long discussion with very different opinions about Helen Gurley Brown. Should she be included alongside Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinam in the women's movement? It was a good choice for our group after a summer hiatus.