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Title: Where were their editors?
Review: This book, along with Cokie's "We Are Our Mothers' Daughters," is our current Book Club assignment. Having stalled part way through that book, I picked up this one in the hope I'll be able to participate at least partially in the discussion. For such shallow work, this is remarkably tedious reading! The opening "dialogue" chapters should have been drastically trimmed. Should we care whether or not Cokie's ever owned grey Bermuda shorts? And lucky them -- having the political connections to end-run the marriage license requirements. A revelation: it's good to be rich and famous. The format of the "researched" chapters is interesting -- a paragraph lifted from someone else's work, with a "whaddya think about that!" one-line observation tacked at the end. Next month's Rosamunde Pilcher is going to feel like Faulkner by comparison.
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