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Inspirational conversations with fifty-eight prominent women in which they describe what they had dreamed of becoming as children are accompanied by full-color portrait photographs of each woman in that role, featuring Madeleine Albright, Linda Carter, Betty Friedan, Patricia Schroeder, Ann Curry, Denyce Graves, and Dorothy Height, among others.
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Extraordinary Women is a book about precisely that-extraordinary women, though not in the roles we usually see them. Each of the 58 prominent women in this insightful book was asked what they dreamed of becoming when they were children; they were then photographed in that role. Thus, former secretary of state Madeline Albright can be seen as a chess champion, actress Linda Carter as an Olympic athlete, gymnast Dominic Dawes as a justice of the Supreme Court, feminist Betty Friedan as a mystery writer.
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