This intimate collection of portraits reveals both writer and subject in fifty inspired pairings. Novelist Susan Orlean compares notes with Joan Didion, Orna Feldman marvels at Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Elizabeth Hardwick rediscovers Zelda Fitzgerald, and dozens more are memorably revealed. Each piece is accompanied by a lush, full-page duotone by such eminent photographers as Annie Leibovitz, Matthew Rolston, Brigitt LaCombe, and Michael Collopy. These fifty women come from all walks of life: art, politics, literature, fashion, science, and sports, but they all have one thing in common: they have made legendary contributions to our world.
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This book [Legends 2 : Women Who Changed the World through the Eyes of Great Women Writers] of living history, comes to you as a gift. Valder Beebe, Editorial Director
50 women to inspire you to `know better and do better' though a beautiful book that is powerful in the lives of women and our world. Take a daily read and know details behind the beautiful cover photograph of Dana Owens aka Queen Latifah (Latifah means "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic). Be inspired by her movies, commercials, TV and CEO power of her own company, Flavor Unit Entertainment. Peruse the stunning beauty of Nicole Kidman as detailed by the writer of Dorothy Summers. Hopefully you will know Alice Waters as writer, Marian Burros so aptly writes of her cooking fame at Chez Panisse. Hillary Clinton, whether on the senate floor or eying the White House as the President, is a force (like it or not). Alice Walker talks of being comfortable in natural hair, the controversies over The Color Purple and the enviable Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1983. I believe in the beauty and the power of books and when a book of Legends2 arrives to inspire, elevate and move us to passion, I must share with readers to stir change in living the strength of our own lives. Editors John and Kristen Miller put their finger on the pulse of greatness to select the slim few for Legends2. Diane Keaton, changed the image of our perception of a Star by being who she is, Carly Fiorina, CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard Co. change the rules of women in the business game (being fired in 2005 will not change the history that she made), K. D. Lang, makes us rethink of the definition of "I am Woman." I felt I had favorites then I revisited Pasty Cline (one my all time favorites) and the words about Bessie Smith, made me remember `being great when women of color were not considered great."
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- Starting Over by Sonja Brown on page 31, and Back Matter
- Play It As It Lays: A Novel by Joan Didion on page 15, and Back Matter
- Annie Hall by Woody Allen on page 53, and Back Matter
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison on page 7
- Swan Lake by Margot Fonteyn on page 71
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