Martha Stewart

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.