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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

by Gail Collins (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

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Synopsis

WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed exciting changes, expectations about what their lives could be smashed in just a generation. The story ends in the 21st century, with a woman winning a Presidential primary. This book tells us how women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Collins spoke with the women who lived these transformative years, including an advertising executive in the 60s who was not allowed to attend board meetings that took place in the all-male dining room and an airline stewardess who was required to bend over to light her passengers' cigars on a men-only 'Executive Flight'. Picking up where her highly-lauded book America's Women left off, WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED is the dynamic story of cataclysmic change, a story Gail Collins seems to have been born to tel

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Little, Brown US
Published: 05 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 0316059544
ISBN 13: 9780316059541
Book Overview: Gail Collins, the esteemed New York Times columnist and bestselling author recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years.

Media Reviews
A rousing epic. -- New York Times Book Review Stacy Schiff
Masterful.... Collins's sly wit and unfussy style makes this historical book extremely accessible. -- People
A monumental work.... There are few books that qualify as both good-for-you and good-to-you reading. America's Women falls into this elite category. -- Dallas Morning News
Collins, a lively narrator of events, works years of scholarly research seamlessly into the text of America's Women, with neither pedantry nor pretension. -- Washington Post Book World
What a pageant! Gail Collins's America's Women sweeps across four centuries of the history of women in America in one seamless take.
-- Los Angeles Times Bettyann Holtzmann Kelves
In a deft and entertaining work of historical synthesis, Ms. Collins draws on the new literature of American women's history to weave a rich narrative. -- New York Times Ellen Chesler
An engrossing account of how not just the daily lives, but the assumptions and expectations of women have changed so much in so short a time. Collins can be deadly serious and great fun to read at the same time. A revelatory book for readers of both sexes, and sure to become required reading for any American women's-studies course. -- Kirkus
Splendid...Collins is a masterful storyteller. -- NPR.com Glenn C. Altschuler
Author Bio
Gail Collins was the Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times from 2001-2007 - the first woman to have held that position. She currently writes a column for the Time's Op-Ed page twice weekly