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“The Times columnist sets out to tell the ‘story of women and age in America’ by diving into the long tradition of older women’s political involvement. This is a deeply reported book…an eye-opening guide to our shifting attitudes about aging, particularly when it came to women.”
— New York Times
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“Collins…is a cheerful companion through the decades…There are dozens upon dozens of heroic stories of remarkable women in this book that will be new to the average reader.”
— Washington Post
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“Robust social history.”
— NPR
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“A lively celebration of women’s potential.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“A lively and well-researched compendium…This enjoyable and informative historical survey will delight Collins’s fans and bring in some new ones.”
— Publishers Weekly
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“Collins continues her exploration of women’s history with this breezy look at the position of older women in American society. This is a diverting and certainly interesting and valuable read.”
— Booklist
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A deeply researched, entertaining book . . . [Collins] brings a reporter's eye to the facts and anecdotes, and never without humor.
— New York Times
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Collins . . . is a cheerful companion through the decades.
— Washington Post
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An eye-opening guide to our shifting attitudes about aging."—New York Times
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A lively celebration of women's potential.
— Kirkus
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Collins continues her exploration of women's history with this breezy look at the position of older women in American society. This is a diverting and certainly interesting and valuable read.
— Booklist
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A lively and well-researched compendium. . . . This enjoyable and informative historical survey will delight Collins's fans and bring in some new ones.
— Publishers Weekly
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Splendid...Collins is a masterful storyteller.
— Glenn C. Altschuler, NPR.com
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Did feminism fail? Gail Collins's smart, thorough, often droll and extremely readable account of women's recent history in America not only answers this question brilliantly, but also poses new ones about the past and the present.
— Amy Bloom, The New York Times Book Review
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Riveting and remarkably thorough in its account of this tumultuous period.
— Rasha Madkour, Los Angeles Times
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Compulsively readable.
— Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
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Gail Collins has an unflaggingly intelligent conversational style that gives this book a personal and authoritative tone all at once.
— Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books
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Exhilarating, accessible, and inspiring.
— Katha Pollitt, Slate.com
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Gail Collins is such a delicious writer, it's easy to forget the scope of her scholarship in this remarkable look at women's progress.
— People