In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton her early exposure to social activism in India, and the decades spent organizing ground-up movements in America the taxi drivers who were "vectors of modern myths" and the airline stewardesses who embraced the feminist revolution and the infinite, surprising contrasts, the "surrealism in everyday life" that Steinem encountered as she traveled back and forth across the country. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. Summary: "Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Gloria Steinem-writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader-now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler.
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