Title: Carpenter provides a nuanced view of Reitman's love life.
Product review: In her biography of her father, Mecca Reitman Carpenter effectively rescues Ben Reitman from Emma Goldman's longstanding portrayal of him as a blindly promiscuous, self-indulgent libertine. While she does not always sympathize with his treatment of the women in his life, Carpenter's examination of the unpublished letters of several of the women who loved him, including those written by her mother, provides a nuanced view of these relationships. Her portrait of her mother is especially instructive and engaging. Medina Oliver Reitman's dry wit and her unshakable sense of self-direction are both endearing and admirable. While she was ostensibly apolitical, unmoved by the radical social and sexual philosophies of her contemporaries, she is the best embodiment of the "New Woman" of the twentieth century in fact or fiction that I've come across.
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