Tearing Down Walls: A Woman's Triumph
Autor Mary Gardiner Jonesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 dec 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761839040
ISBN-10: 0761839046
Pagini: 213
Dimensiuni: 161 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hamilton Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0761839046
Pagini: 213
Dimensiuni: 161 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hamilton Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 My "Mayflower" Family
Chapter 4 Aunt Rosalie, The Maverick
Chapter 5 Growing Up a Jones
Chapter 6 Away from Home at Last
Chapter 7 Teaching School, Joining the OSS
Chapter 8 Changing Directions
Chapter 9 Entering a Man's World
Chapter 10 Public Service Beckons
Chapter 11 Finding Myself through Analysis
Chapter 12 Re-entering the Private Sector and President Lyndon Johnson Calls
Chapter 13 Commissioner Honey, The Federal Trade Commission
Chapter 14 The Washington Life, Politics and the Commission
Chapter 15 Goodbye FTC, Hello Classroom
Chapter 16 Coming Home to Washington and Exploring the Corporate World
Chapter 17 Corporate Boards, A Woman's Advantage
Chapter 18 Consumers' Champion
Chapter 19 Retirement: A Demanding Challenge
Chapter 20 A Backward Glance
Chapter 21 Further Reading
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 My "Mayflower" Family
Chapter 4 Aunt Rosalie, The Maverick
Chapter 5 Growing Up a Jones
Chapter 6 Away from Home at Last
Chapter 7 Teaching School, Joining the OSS
Chapter 8 Changing Directions
Chapter 9 Entering a Man's World
Chapter 10 Public Service Beckons
Chapter 11 Finding Myself through Analysis
Chapter 12 Re-entering the Private Sector and President Lyndon Johnson Calls
Chapter 13 Commissioner Honey, The Federal Trade Commission
Chapter 14 The Washington Life, Politics and the Commission
Chapter 15 Goodbye FTC, Hello Classroom
Chapter 16 Coming Home to Washington and Exploring the Corporate World
Chapter 17 Corporate Boards, A Woman's Advantage
Chapter 18 Consumers' Champion
Chapter 19 Retirement: A Demanding Challenge
Chapter 20 A Backward Glance
Chapter 21 Further Reading
Recenzii
Mary Gardiner Jones not only tore down walls that kept women out of positions of power and influence-she smashed them to smithereens. And in so doing, she created opportunities for future generations who never knew how high and thick the walls once were. Hers is an exemplary life, offering men as well as women a lesson in what one person's indomitable spirit can accomplish. Read this and be inspired.
In this frank and very readable memoir, Mary Gardiner Jones describes growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in a privileged, "old" New York (and Long Island) family...Tearing Down Walls: One Woman's Triumph is an interesting and revealing autobiography with themes that intersect with issues in wider society.
Often overlooked is her role in introducing the consumer into administrative law thinking and proceedings. She argued and encouraged both academics studying consumer behavior in the legal environment as well as regulators and attorneys. She brought her considerable persusasive powers to bear to help facilitate this major change in regulatory thinking...Her insights into the inner workings of organizations (especially the Federal Trade Commission) is a strength of this book. Her description of the various players and their impact on her life is one of the major highlights of the second half of this book.
This is an amazing life story of a woman born into American privilege whose family lands become both LaGuardia Airport and New York's Jones Beach. She could have been just another prejudiced upper class celebrity, but Mary Gardiner Jones was anything but. From her war experiences in the OSS to her struggles in the late 1940s to find work as a woman lawyer with a degree from Yale, to her experiences in public service as she climbed the rungs to become the first woman Federal Trade Commissioner and then into the corporate world, this is a life worth knowing about and examining.
Tearing Down Walls is a compelling work.
Mary Gardiner Jones has a major impact on the focus and accomplishments of the Federal Trade Commission in the 1960s and early 1970s...Her memoir vividly-and candidly-recounts those times and her subsequent struggles and triumphs in the corporate world, the consumer movement and the complex mental health environment...a richly human story and a historically valuable recounting of a bright woman's 60-year career fighting for issues she deeply cared about...
In this frank and very readable memoir, Mary Gardiner Jones describes growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in a privileged, "old" New York (and Long Island) family...Tearing Down Walls: One Woman's Triumph is an interesting and revealing autobiography with themes that intersect with issues in wider society.
Often overlooked is her role in introducing the consumer into administrative law thinking and proceedings. She argued and encouraged both academics studying consumer behavior in the legal environment as well as regulators and attorneys. She brought her considerable persusasive powers to bear to help facilitate this major change in regulatory thinking...Her insights into the inner workings of organizations (especially the Federal Trade Commission) is a strength of this book. Her description of the various players and their impact on her life is one of the major highlights of the second half of this book.
This is an amazing life story of a woman born into American privilege whose family lands become both LaGuardia Airport and New York's Jones Beach. She could have been just another prejudiced upper class celebrity, but Mary Gardiner Jones was anything but. From her war experiences in the OSS to her struggles in the late 1940s to find work as a woman lawyer with a degree from Yale, to her experiences in public service as she climbed the rungs to become the first woman Federal Trade Commissioner and then into the corporate world, this is a life worth knowing about and examining.
Tearing Down Walls is a compelling work.
Mary Gardiner Jones has a major impact on the focus and accomplishments of the Federal Trade Commission in the 1960s and early 1970s...Her memoir vividly-and candidly-recounts those times and her subsequent struggles and triumphs in the corporate world, the consumer movement and the complex mental health environment...a richly human story and a historically valuable recounting of a bright woman's 60-year career fighting for issues she deeply cared about...