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Following Mary Pickford's life, this book gives an overview of her enduring contribution to American film and mass culture. It also explores her struggles to surpass her confining public film persona as 'America's Sweetheart', mirroring how women, both then and today, must reconcile domestic life with professional aspirations and work.
Review Quotes: Just what any professor wants: books that will intrigue, inform, and fascinate students! These short, readable biographies of American womenspecifically designed for classroom usegive instructors an appealing new option to assign to their history students.
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University
For educators keen to include women in the American story, but hampered by the lack of thoughtful, concise scholarship, here comes Lives of American Women, ' embracing Abigail Adams's counsel to Johnremember the ladies.' And high time, too!
Lesley S. Herrmann, Executive Director, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
These books are, above all, fascinating stories that will engage and inspire readers. They offer a glimpse into the lives of key women in history who either defied tradition or who successfully maneuvered in a man's world to make an impact. The stories of these vital contributors to American history deliver just the right formula for instructors looking to provide a more complicated and nuanced view of history.
Rosanne Lichatin, 2005 Gilder Lehrman Preserve America History Teacher of the Year"