Enter Helen (eBook)

Engaging. Nimble-footed. Amusing.Throughout, Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s[to] situate her life in the context of its times.New York Times Book ReviewThis femaleMad Men-like story chronicles the legendaryCosmopolitanmagazine editors rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman.In the mid-Sixties, Helen Gurley Brown, author of the groundbreakingSex and the Single Girl,took over the ailingCosmopolitanmagazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole, Helen reimaginedCosmoand womanhood itself, championing the independent, ambitious, man-loving single woman. Though she was married, to Hollywood producer David Brown, no one embodied the idea of theCosmoGirl more than the Ozarks-born Helen, who willed, worked, andyesoccasionally slept her way to the top, eventually becoming one of the most influential media players in the world.Drawing on new interviews with Helens friends and former colleagues as well as her personal letters,Enter Helenbrings New York City vibrantly to life during the Sexual Revolution and the Womens Movement and features a cast of characters including Hugh Hefner, Nora Ephron, and Gloria Steinem. It is the cinematic story of an icon who bucked convention, defined her own destiny, and became a controversial model for modern feminism, laying the groundwork for television shows likeSex and the CityandGirls.Bad Feminist or not, Helen Gurley Brown got people talkingabout sex, work, reproductive choices, and having it allforever changing the conversation.