Enter Helen

<p><strong>This female <em>Mad Men</em>-like story chronicles the legendary <em>Cosmopolitan</em> magazine editor's rise to power as both a cultural icon and trailblazer who redefined what it means to be an American woman.</strong></p><p><strong>Engaging.... Nimble-footed.... Amusing....Throughout Hauser weaves in passages connecting Brown to her contemporaries and the cultural landscape of the 1960s...[to] situate her life in the context of its times.</strong> -- <strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>In the mid-Sixties Helen Gurley Brown author of the groundbreaking <em>Sex and the Single Girl </em> took over the ailing <em>Cosmopolitan</em> magazine and revamped it into one of the most successful brands in the world. At a time when magazines taught housewives how to make the perfect casserole Helen reimagined <em>Cosmo</em> and womanhood itself championing the independent ambitious single woman. Though she was married to Hollywood producer David Brown no one embodied the idea of the <em>Cosmo </em>Girl more than the Ozarks-born Helen who willed worked and--maybe--occasionally slept her way to the top eventually becoming one of the most influential media players in the world.</p><p>Drawing on new interviews with Helen's friends and former colleagues as well as her personal letters <em>Enter Helen</em> brings New York City vibrantly to life during the Sexual Revolution and the Women's Movement and features a cast of characters including Hugh Hefner Nora Ephron and Gloria Steinem. It is the cinematic story of an icon who bucked convention defined her own destiny and became a controversial model for modern feminism laying the groundwork for television shows like <em>Sex and the City</em> and <em>Girls.</em></p><p>Bad feminist or not Helen Gurley Brown got people talking--about sex work reproductive choices and having it all--forever changing the conversation.</p>