Volume 50, Number 18 · November 20, 2003
Lady Sings the Blues
By Larry McMurtry
America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins
William Morrow, 556 pp., $27.95
As editorial editor of The New York Times Gail Collins is responsible for seeing that writers get to the point and get to it quick—ASAP, as the current lingo would have it. She herself gets to the point ASAP on the opening page of her long, ambitious history of America's women:
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