In her lively social history of American women and aging, Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries, and gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years. Collins is the first woman to have h...
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It's Halloween and Clifford and his friends hear a strange howling noise. Is there a monster next door? It's a big Halloween fright for a small red puppy.
In this social history of American women and aging, New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates how age has been an arbitrary concept over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age") to the first femal...
Katie encounters two men at eerie Porter's Pond who tell her about their attempt to fly across the Atlantic. Katie realizes that the aviators are ghosts caught in a terrible cycle, and unless she can help them, these brave men are doomed to repeat their ill-fated flight each time...
Chronicles the revolution of women's civil rights throughout the past half century, drawing on oral history and research in a variety of disciplines while celebrating Hillary Clinton's recent presidential campaign.
"From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relat...