About this book
In our fame-crazed culture, she's known as a diva of domesticity, entrepreneur, media magnate, and a living brand. She has legions of fans and at the same time, many detractors. To her fans, Martha Stewart is a homemaking maven, the do-it-yourself doyenne. To her detractors, she's taken the American woman backwards, espousing an unobtainable ideal. Love her or hate her, this much is true: Martha Stewart is a self-made woman who has risen from her modest upbringing to become one of the most successful and wealthiest businesswomen in history. This intriguing biography provides a balanced portrait of Martha Stewart's professional and personal life, from her childhood as the oldest daughter in a family of six children to her brief career as a securities trader, to becoming a bestselling author in the 1980s and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in the 1990s. At the height of her power, Stewart was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock sale. Author Joanne F. Price documents the twists and turns of the trial, Stewart's five-month prison term, the highly publicized comeback following her release from prison in March 2005.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- Timeline: Events in the Life of Martha Stewart
- Chapter 1 What It Means To Be Martha
- Chapter 2 Growing Up in New Jersey
- Chapter 3 College, Modeling, and Marriage
- Chapter 4 Motherhood, a Move to Westport, and a New Career
- Chapter 5 In the Public Eye, Martha Stewart Inc., and the First Book, Entertaining
- Chapter 6 Kmart, Television, Divorce, Omnimedia, Going Public
- Chapter 7 The Investigation
- Chapter 8 The Indictment, the Trial, and the Verdict
- Chapter 9 Prison and Planning the Comeback
- Chapter 10 Home Again, the Comeback, New Business Ventures
- Appendix
- Further Reading
- Index
- Photo essay to follow page 53.