We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
10 best books like We Are Our Mothers' Daughters (Cokie Roberts): A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, Time Flies, Under a Wing: A Memoir, Still Woman Enough: A Memoir, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf, Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon, Composing a Life, The Polygamous Wives Writing Club: From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 1681684578 |
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and...
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
| Author | Linda Ellerbee |
| ISBN | 0425102378 |
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program...
| Author | Bill Cosby |
| ISBN | 0553277243 |
WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER,
AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER
America's best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth, wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond, Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through...
| Author | Reeve Lindbergh |
| ISBN | 0385334443 |
"We Lindberghs still know ourselves best as a tribe: close-knit, self-enclosed, and self-defining, always prepared to be besieged by invisible forces upwelling from the past...."
The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and controversial...
Loretta Lynn's first memoir, Coal Miner's Daughter, was a #1 national bestseller that sparked an Oscar-winning movie and left fans hungry for more. Now Loretta finishes that story, and the second half of her life is every bit as remarkable and inspiring as the first.
In a friendly, down-home...
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
| Author | Brian Lanker |
| ISBN | 1556709749 |
A biographical collection of portraits celebrating Black Women who shaped America, strove for their dreams, and refused to toe the line in the face of adversity and discrimination. Their faces, and their words share with us a wisdom of life thoroughly lived. Their stories give us all a glimpse of the...
“I’ve got the name for our publishing operation. We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random. Let’s call it Random House.” So recounts Bennett Cerf in this wonderfully amusing memoir of the making of a great publishing house. An incomparable raconteur, possessed of...
Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
| Author | Patricia McCairen |
| ISBN | 1580050077 |
"It's well known that Mother River doesn't like a smart aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with reverence and skill on a sometimes hair-raising solo rafting trip along the Colorado River that winds though the stupendous stone valleys of the American Grand Canyon. Like...
| Author | Mary Catherine Bateson |
| ISBN | 0802138047 |
Wow. I am really surprised by this book. I suppose the kindest thing to say is that it was written by a woman of a certain generation, and I feel that a lot of the compromises she accepts as "progress" are (happily) outdated thinking today. Her suggestions seem to point toward submission, I found. The women...
| Author | Paula Kelly Harline |
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives.
Paula Kelly Harline delves deep into...
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
| Author | Bob Edwards |
| ISBN | 0471477532 |
Get it, read it, and pass it on.
--Bill Moyers""Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings...
This Just in: What I Couldn't Tell You on TV
| Author | Bob Schieffer |
| ISBN | 0425194337 |
Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four...
| Author | Jill Ker Conway |
| ISBN | 0679744614 |
Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te...
| Author | M.F.K. Fisher |
| ISBN | 0394723856 |
In these fifteen remarkable stories, M.F.K. Fisher, one of the most admired writers of our time, embraces age as St. Francis welcomed Brother Pain. With a saint to guide us, she writes in her Foreword, perhaps we can accept in a loving way "the inevitable visits of a possibly nagging harpy like Sister...
The Silent Passage: Menopause
From the flyleaf:
"The best-selling author of Passages returns with a myth-shattering investigation of America's last taboo: menopause.
"All women face menopause, but, as gail Sheehy so compellingly reveals in interviews with women from a broad spectrum of economic, ethnic,...
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
| Author | Kati Marton |
| ISBN | 0385721889 |
Kati Marton’s bestselling Hidden Power is an engrossing look at twelve presidential marriages–from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George W. Bush–that have profoundly affected America’s history.
Marton uncovers the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the ultimate power couples,...
| Author | Louis Nizer |
| ISBN | 0515027642 |
A famous lawyer recounts some of his significant civil and criminal cases.
Contents:
Prologue: Opening the green doors --
Reputation: The libel case of Quentin Reynolds vs. Westbrook Pegler --
Divorce: The 'war of the Roses' and others --
Talent: The case of the plagiarized...
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0345316290 |
Read this as a teenager and I remember that it really affected me. I loved how the chapters were alternately written by the mother and father. The Massies recount their journey of raising a son who is a hemophiliac.
I found the photographs haunting, and felt a real connection with the son. I hope...
Reflections: Life After the White House
| Author | Barbara Bush |
| ISBN | 0743223594 |
This book and Barbara Bush are a Hoot! This is a look at the days after 41 lost the election to Clinton, and goes off of her diary entries until right after 9.11.01. It is honest, wise, slightly biased ( as she freely admits) and absolutely funny. Her puns are excellent. I was laughing a lot and I was dying at...
Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem
| Author | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
| ISBN | 0345406214 |
From one of America's most respected critics comes an acclaimed biography of the controversial feminist. Here, Heilbrun illuminates the life and explores the many facets of Steinem's complex life, from her difficult childhood to the awakening that changed her into the most famous feminist in the...
| Author | Jane Howard |
| ISBN | 0449904970 |
"Engaging . . . a fine biography that gets beyond the public icon to a portrait of the real woman."--
Chicago Sun-Times
At the age of twenty-three, in the 1920s, Margaret Mead traveled alone to the South Sea and wrote of adolescent sexuality and guilt-free love in her now classic Coming of...
The Star Wars Cookbook II: Darth Malt and More Galactic Recipes
| Author | Wesley Martin |
| ISBN | 0811828034 |
Even the pickiest of Gungans will eat their fruits and veggies when Bubble City Salad and Boss Nass Broccoli are on the menu. With this exciting new sequel to the best-selling The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookiee Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes, Star Wars fans of all ages can cook up more out-of-this-world...
My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity
| Author | Nancy Friday |
| ISBN | 0385320159 |
When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s, no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills...
My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere
| Author | Susan Orlean |
| ISBN | 0812974875 |
Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played, with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden...
