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Summary: Boring!
Review: If you have read Katherine Graham's book "Personal History", then save your money and don't buy The Georgetown Ladies. It is almost as though Heymann took the words right out of Grahams Book. It took me forever to get thru this..... it was very boring and NO new news. One of the worst books I've ever read.
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Summary: An unintentional but serious indictment
Review: The point to this review originally was that it's a good book in spite of the fact that it's about trashy women. It's well conceived and excellently executed. Your editing doesn't make that point. >>(...)
If author Heymann is to be believed, the six ladies herein portrayed (Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, Evangeline Bruce, Pamela Harriman and Sally Quinn)were the powers behind the Democratic Party for most of the 20th Century. These women all have the same claim to fame: they married prominent men and exercised power through them or because of them. Given their [adventures invloving sex] and prowess, a much stronger claim could be made about them (...) Although it's not the author's intent, the book gives a good deal of insight into the question, "what happened to ethics and morals in 20th Century America?" One can only call these women "successful" if one considers the acquisition of money and political and social power to be the ultimate in achievement. Frankly, each one of them is a pitiable demonstration of a selfish and wasted life.
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Summary: Marriage more important than merit or talent?
Review: [I edited my review to show that the book deserves four stars not the one I originally gave it. The author deserved better than that. It IS well written and interesting. The main cast gets one star!] I'm a nearby resident of Georgetown. What a pity these empty busy-bodies are held in any esteem at all. In a country where merit is traditionally the sign of success, the influence and celebration of these social parasites is a deep disappointment. Without a lick of talent or hard work and only as a result of birth or marriage these nincompoops achieved a measure of power and influence- greatly undeserved. This group of "social geniuses" was instrumental in Georgetown not receiving an underground Metro station fearing an overflow of "undesireables". As a result of this decision twenty years ago, Georgetown has had to purchase its own buses to supplement DC's bus lines adding to the traffic. And boy what traffic. Thousands visit Georgetown every week, with no Metro Station they drive their cars creating one of the most vehicle-congested neighborhoods in the United States. This same group's "descendents" is now whining about the need for an underground Metro. What horrible examples these cackling hens and their still active replacements are to young women today.
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