Letter to the World

Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century

Susan Ware

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Casting Call for the American Century

    1. First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt

    2. "She Rides in the Smoking Car": Dorothy Thompson

    3. Coming of Age with Margaret Mead

    4. Living Like a Man: Katharine Hepburn

    5. From Tomboy to Lady: Babe Didrikson Zaharias

    6. Front and Center: Martha Graham

    7. Across the Color Line: Marian Anderson

    Epilogue: Growing Old Gracefully in Public

    Notes

    Index

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Susan Ware is the editor of volume 5 of Notable American Women, under preparation by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harvard University Press.