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My life on the road / Gloria Steinem

Author
Steinem, Gloria
Published
New York : Random House, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
Random House trade paperback edition.
Physical Description
xxvi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Contents
Road signs -- My father's footsteps -- Talking circles -- Why I don't drive -- One big campus -- When the political is personal -- Surrealism in everyday life -- Secrets -- What once was can be again -- Coming home.
Summary
From journalist, activist, and international icon Gloria Steinem comes her first book in twenty years, an all-new memoir of a lifetime of listening and learning from people, traveling America and the world. Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure to social activism in India; organizing ground-up movements in America; the taxi drivers who were 'vectors of modern myths' and the airline stewardesses who embraced feminism; and the infinite contrasts, the 'surrealism in everyday life' that Steinem encountered as she traveled back and forth across the country. With the unique perspective of one of the greatest feminist icons of the 20th and 21st centuries, here is an inspiring, profound, enlightening memoir of one woman's life-long journey.
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ISBN
9780345408167 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
0345408160 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
Note
"Includes 'Secrets' a new chapter"--Cover.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-294) and index.
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