A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism. The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of "The Feminine Mystique", was powerful and polarizing. In th...

A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first – and only – stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous...