Liza Mundy
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English
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Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
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English
Description
Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and intimate portrait of the most dynamic couple in politics today: Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making pragmatist; and Barack, the introspective political charmer who shoots for the stars. Michelle's story carries all the achievements and lingering pain of the post-civil rights era. She grew up on the south side of Chicago, in a neighborhood rocked by white flight....
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
"Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America, the growing intelligence agency needed women to type memos, send messages, manipulate expense accounts, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest, toughest operatives the agency...
5) The richer sex: how the new majority of female breadwinners is transforming sex, love, and family
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Language
English
Description
Statistics show that there are now more female breadwinners in the job market than male and as a result, transformation is taking place in many areas including sex, love and family. Mundy explains why this is not only inevitable, but a good thing.