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...very surprised in reading your book how many women - some of them self-identified feminists, some of them professionals - have the fantasy that some man is going to rescue them financially...
There are women in your book who married for love and thereby entered poverty and later said that they hadn't really dealt realistically with their futures...
...Depression, these issues are powerful and can really transform people's relationships. But I think now, when people's lifestyles and very careers are being threatened, all of these things are going to be in the forefront and wield an even stronger influence. So I'm hoping that this book will help women figure out their own circumstances and make them feel that they're not alone and see the different ways that money can impact people's relationships - and hopefully take some of the lessons away that each of these writers have told. (See Sanjay Gupta's article...
...noticed that Tim Weiner's book Legacy of Ashes has become a report card for the CIA, a final and damning indictment. But what the lay reader might miss is that, while Legacy of Ashes catalogs the failed covert operations and finished intelligence manipulated by the White House - in other words, the politicization of the CIA - it fails to acknowledge the agency's successes. There's more than enough truth in Weiner's book, but what it misses is the point that when the CIA is left to the basics, it does just fine, thank...