Miss America, 1945: Bess Myerson's Own Story - Hardcover

Dworkin, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557040001 ISBN 13: 9781557040008

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Part biography, part cultural history, this book evokes America in the thirties and forties while revealing the story of a poor Jewish girl from the Bronx and her encounter with prize and prejudice after becoming Miss America

About this title

From Library Journal:

This is a highly flattering account of the most important year in Myerson's life, 1945, when she won the title of Miss America. She was the first Jewish woman to do so. All the backstage drama of that postwar pageant is recounted, along with her own nervousness and unlikely background. Dworkin contends that subsequent disputes between would-be managers and some anti-Semitic rejection soured the year of glory. Myerson then threw herself into humanitarian campaigns and found some brief security in marriage. Though competently written, with an attempt at historical context, this subjective work is for specialized collections only. Priscilla E. Pratt, formerly with York Coll. Lib., New York
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Newmarket Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1557040001
• ISBN 13: 9781557040008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229