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Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown / Gerri Hirshey.

by Hirshey, Gerri, author.

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New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Brown, Helen Gurley.

Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.

Editors -- United States -- Biography.

9780374169176 :

xxiv, 500 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

The trouble with Helen -- That woman -- Arkansas. Cleo's lament ; Daddy's girl ; Fear itself ; Roads to nowhere -- Los Angeles. What fresh hell ; Sinking in ; Not pretty enough ; The keptive ; Dear Mr. B... ; How ever did she do it? ; The cures ; The marriage plot ; Let the games begin ; Whiskey sours with Carl Sandburg ; For all the single ladies ... ; We have liftoff! ; Roadshow ; Meet the press -- New York. She'll take Manhattan ; "How dare you, Helen Gurley Brown?" ; In which Cosmopolitan gets a makeover ; Weekdays in the park with David ; Recipe for success ; Big sister and the youthquake ; A march forward, a few steps back ; Cosmo goes to Harvard ; Isn't she lovely? ; High tide ; Victory lap ; Thin ice ; A sort of crisis ; The politburo must fall ; "What the hell, we're off to Korea!" ; The long goodbye ; The women : can we talk? -- "Take me to the Ozarks."

"Brown's life story-- a classic American rags-to-riches tale-- is just as juicy as her controversial books. In this...biography, the writer and reporter Gerri Hirshey traces Brown's path from deep in the Arkansas Ozarks to her wild single years in Los Angeles, from the New York magazine world to her Hollywood adventures with her film producer husband. Along the way she became the highest-paid female ad copywriter on the West Coast, and transformed Hearst's failing literary magazine, Cosmopolitan, into the female-oriented global juggernaut it is today."--

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