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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies
IT'S COMPLICATED.
We've read the scandalous headlines, watched her sexy breakout
performances in "Starship Troopers "and "Wild Things," and seen her
many public faces on her reality television show--the beautiful
vixen, the devoted mother, the hard-working entertainer, and the
fun-loving friend. But how well do we really know Denise Richards?
Like so many small-town girls, she dreamed of making it big in
Hollywood. But following a painful, high-profile divorce from
Charlie Sheen, she found herself raising their two young daughters
alone as her mother was dying of cancer. Denise writes openly and
honestly about these experiences and more: she lets you in on her
childhood dreams, her fated move to Hollywood with her close-knit
family, her rise to fame, the pressures of living in the spotlight,
and the controversy surrounding her relationships. Through it all,
she managed to keep her sense of humor and optimism.
She offers an up-close and personal look at her most intimate
battle scars and the lessons she's learned as she's healed and
grown. Denise's story will resonate with anyone who has had to look
within herself to find strength and courage when life is throwing
curveballs.
Inspiring and uplifting, raw and revealing, Denise finally lets her
fans in on the resilient woman behind the bombshell persona, the
person her friends and family already know: "The Real Girl Next
Door."
When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders
after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only
woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized
her as the World's Greatest Miser, and, indeed, this unlikely
robber baron -- who parlayed a comfortable inheritance into a
fortune that was worth about 1.6 billion in today's dollars -- was
frugal to a fault. But in an age when women weren't even allowed to
vote, never mind concern themselves with interest rates, she lived
by her own rules. In Hetty, Charles Slack reexamines her life and
legacy, giving us, at long last, a splendidly "nuanced portrait"
(Newsweek) of one of the greatest -- and most eccentric --
financiers in American history.This P.S. edition features an extra
16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews,
recommended reading, and more.
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