Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
by Gerri Hirshey
Hardcover- $17.87

When Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl first appeared in 1962, it whistled into buttoned-down America like a bombshell: Brown ...

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  "Lots of discussion" by [email protected] (see profile) 09/22/16

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.

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