Daring: my passages

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Pt. 1. The Pygmalion years. Do I dare? -- Crossroads of a million private lives -- False starts -- Deceptions -- Seduction at the Algonquin -- Love and death in the year America came apart -- Failing up -- The New York family -- "I'll make you a star" -- Hiding out at Woodstock -- Playing house -- Fear of feminism -- Women helping women -- Redpants and regrets -- Secret of Grey Gardens -- Fighting Irish women -- Kissinger and the kitchen wars -- Stepping off the pedestal -- pt. 2. The passages years. Lovebirds -- Birthing Passages -- Fear of failure or fear of success? -- Fatal attraction -- Power fever -- Murdoch makes his move -- For the love of editors -- The mission that found me -- Separations -- Discovering Mohm -- A passage for keeps -- Finding a new voice at Vanity Fair -- Start-ups -- Two who changed the world -- The silent passage -- Lions and toads -- pt. 3. The bonus years. The happiness prescription -- The Hillary decade -- Recurrence -- New millennium, new baby -- Losing Clay -- Losing myself -- All that jazz -- Coming back.;"The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her ... memoir, a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking 'girl' journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times"--