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BARBIE AND RUTH
The Story of the World´s Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her
BARBIE AND RUTH is the entwined tale of two exceptional women: one was a voluptuous eleven-inch-tall beauty who debuted at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City and quickly became the treasure of 9 out of 10 American girls and their counterparts in 150 countries. She went on to compete as an Olympic athlete, serve as an air force pilot, work as a boutique owner, run as a presidential candidate, and ignite a cultural firestorm.
The other was Ruth Handler, the tenth child of Polish Jewish immigrants. A brilliant, creative, ruthless, and passionately competitive visionary, Ruth Handler was a mother and wife who wanted it alla masterful entrepreneur who, together with her curvaceous plastic creation, changed American business and culture forever.
BARBIE AND RUTH is the incredible, inspiring, tragic, and ultimately redeeming true story of how one extraordinary woman built the largest toy company in the world and created an enduring international icon.
Robin Gerber is no stranger to Hollywood: Robin is also the writer and a producer of a new Netflix documentary (in production) about the celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley.
Robin Gerber is a celebrated motivational speaker, best-selling author and historian. She has appeared on History Channel and Biography Channel programming, as well as PBS Newshour, and CBS and FOX channel affiliates. Her articles have appeared in USAToday, the Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other newspapers and magazines. Robin is also Senior Faculty for the Institute for Management
Studies where she teaches her popular course on Authentic Leadership.
Robin's other books include the bestselling Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio), Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon; and Eleanor vs. Ike (Harper/ Avon) which imagines Eleanor Roosevelt as a candidate for President in 1952.
The other was Ruth Handler, the tenth child of Polish Jewish immigrants. A brilliant, creative, ruthless, and passionately competitive visionary, Ruth Handler was a mother and wife who wanted it alla masterful entrepreneur who, together with her curvaceous plastic creation, changed American business and culture forever.
BARBIE AND RUTH is the incredible, inspiring, tragic, and ultimately redeeming true story of how one extraordinary woman built the largest toy company in the world and created an enduring international icon.
Robin Gerber is no stranger to Hollywood: Robin is also the writer and a producer of a new Netflix documentary (in production) about the celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley.
Robin Gerber is a celebrated motivational speaker, best-selling author and historian. She has appeared on History Channel and Biography Channel programming, as well as PBS Newshour, and CBS and FOX channel affiliates. Her articles have appeared in USAToday, the Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other newspapers and magazines. Robin is also Senior Faculty for the Institute for Management
Studies where she teaches her popular course on Authentic Leadership.
Robin's other books include the bestselling Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio), Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon; and Eleanor vs. Ike (Harper/ Avon) which imagines Eleanor Roosevelt as a candidate for President in 1952.
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Published by USA: HarperCollins, Feb. 09 |