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Daring : my passages : a memoir / Gail Sheehy.

by Sheehy, Gail.

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HarperLuxe, c2014.

LP 070.92 S541d

Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Journalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.

Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

0062344064 (pbk.)

9780062344069 (pbk.)

1st HarperLuxe large print ed.

675 p. (large print) : ill. (some col.)

484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes index.

"The author of Passages returns with a memoir, a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking 'girl' journalist in the 1960s, becoming one of the premier political profilers of modern times. 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. 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 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. A testament to guts, resilience, smarts, and daring, and a bold perspective on all of life’s passages. Gail Sheehy is the author of seventeen books, most notably the New York Times best-seller Passages, named one of the ten most influential books by the Library of Congress. As a journalist, Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York magazine, and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984. She is the author of Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life; New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time; and Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives"--Provided by publisher.

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