Miss America, 1945
Download or Read eBook Miss America, 1945 PDF written by Susan Dworkin and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Susan Dworkin |
| Publisher | : William Morrow Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999-12-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 1557043817 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9781557043818 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Miss America, 1945 by : Susan Dworkin
Book excerpt: First time in paperback, this unique biography and cultural history is based on History extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred witnesses from the period. Acclaimed novelist and playwright Susan Dworkin skillfully interweaves the absorbing first-person account of how Bess Myerson became the country’s first, and still only, Jewish Miss America in the same year that World War II ended, with a fresh portrait of what life was like for women and Jews in America in the 1930s and ’40s. Her tale of one girl’s coming of age in prefeminist America is “poignant and appealing . . . as much a cameo of an era as a work of biography.” —ALA Booklist
