New Releases by Gail Sheehy

The author of the classic New York Times bestseller Passages returns with her inspiring memoir—a chronicle of her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking “girl” journalist in the 1960s, to iconic guide for women and men seeking to have it all, to one of the premier political profilers of modern times. Candid, insightful, and powerful, Daring: My Passages is the story of the unconventional life of a writer who dared . . . to walk New York City streets with hookers and pimps to expose violent prostitution; to march with civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland as British paratroopers opened fire; to seek out Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat when he was targeted for death after making peace with Israel. Always on the cutting edge of social issues, Gail Sheehy reveals the obstacles and opportunities encountered when she dared to blaze a trail in a “man’s world.” Daring is also a beguiling love story of Sheehy’s tempestuous romance with and eventual happy marriage to Clay Felker, the charismatic creator of New York magazine. As well, Sheehy recounts her audacious pursuit and intimate portraits of many twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush, and the world-altering attraction between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. Sheehy reflects on desire, ambition, and wanting it all—career, love, children, friends, social significance—and lays bare her major life passages: false starts and surprise successes, the shock of failures and inner crises; betrayal in a first marriage; life as a single mother; flings of an ardent, liberated young woman; her adoption of a second daughter from a refugee camp; marriage to the love of her life and their ensuing years of happiness, even in the shadow of illness. Now stronger than ever, Sheehy speaks from hard-won experience to today’s young women. Her fascinating, no-holds-barred story is a testament to guts, resilience, smarts, and daring, and offers a bold perspective on all of life’s passages.

This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. With 15 videos and text focused on strategies one needs to bear the responsibility of caring for someone close to them, the enhanced e-book of Passages In Caregiving takes you by the hand and shows you that you will get through this — and you will do the right things. With empathy and intelligence, backed by formidable research, and interspersed with poignant stories of her experience and that of successful care givers, Passages in Caregiving examines the arc of caregiving from the very first signs of trouble — providing invaluable advice and guidance to help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.

This book is enhanced with content such as audio or video, resulting in a large file that may take longer to download than expected. With 15 videos and text focused on strategies one needs to bear the responsibility of caring for someone close to them, the enhanced e-book of Passages In Caregiving takes you by the hand and shows you that you will get through this — and you will do the right things. With empathy and intelligence, backed by formidable research, and interspersed with poignant stories of her experience and that of successful care givers, Passages in Caregiving examines the arc of caregiving from the very first signs of trouble — providing invaluable advice and guidance to help turn a stressful, life-altering situation into a journey that can be safely navigated and from which everyone can benefit.

A guide to the next life passage for baby boomers outlines nine crucial steps for effective, successful family caregiving.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. . . . She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Bossy and submissive. Strong and soft. . . . The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of life. In her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage, bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenon–increased vitality in women’s sex and love lives after fifty. Sex and the Seasoned Woman is the story of an intimate revolution taking place under our very noses. Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex, love, dating, new dreams, exploring spirituality, and revitalizing their marriages as never before. This is a new universe of passionate, liberated women–married and single–who are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age and are now realizing they don’t have to. As life spans grow longer and as societal constraints continue to loosen, older women–once free of the exhausting demands of young children, needy husbands, and demanding careers–find themselves ready to pursue the passionate life. They embrace their “second adulthood” as a period of reawakening. Written in Sheehy’s singularly compelling style, combining interviews and research, this book gives voice to more than a hundred fascinating and colorful women. The inspiring stories tell of wives who reinvigorate their marriages after their children leave the nest as well as divorced, widowed, and long-single women who find new dreams and new loves. Sheehy delineates a crucial link between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to intimacy and sexual pleasure. She also examines the latest medical breakthroughs addressing symptoms that have unnecessarily curtailed women’s sex lives. From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.

The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope. All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fifty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back to-gether. Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the country’s leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they fight White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up. What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each finds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers. Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to find themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the confi-dence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police officers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the “returning home” phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their flocks. Mental-health professionals confide in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neigh-bors, town officials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community. As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passage—from shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to constructing new lives.

Gail Sheehy''s landmark bestseller offers women the latest information on everything from early menopause to Chinese medicine and natural remedies, including four new chapters on The Perimenopause Panic, Menopause in the Workplace, Estrogen and Brainpower, and New Frontiers in Treatment.

Why does she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation''s Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In Hillary''s Choice, Hillary Clinton is rendered fully human for the first time. Here is the life of a woman that is also the story of a marriage--and the drama of a presidency. From her childhood with a demanding father and frustrated mother to her life as a professional wife determined to elect her husband president . . . from the sexual betrayals that nearly broke her to the national scandal that remade her . . . this is the epic journey of a modern American woman, a saga that begins in passivity, moves through self-punishment, and ends in power. Who was the one "other woman" who posed a serious threat to their marriage? What was the real reason for the health care failure? How did Hillary escape the snare of Kenneth Starr? How has she managed, through it all, to be a good mother? No matter what her future, the mysteries about Hillary Clinton''s past have been fully resolved by Hillary''s Choice, a stunning achievement from a master chronicler of our times.

Her stunning bestsellers Passages and New Passages brilliantly mapped the changes we live through from youth to maturity. Now Gail Sheehy guides contemporary men through the turbulent challenges and surprising pleasures that begin at forty. As a man crosses that threshold, he is bound to ask midlife''s most troubling question: Now what? Work anxieties, concerns over sexual potency, marital and family stress, issues of power, all take on new urgency as men contemplate the decades ahead. But as Gail Sheehy reveals in this major new book, midlife is precisely the period when men are most likely to reinvent themselves and become masters of their fate. In Understanding Men''s Passages, Sheehy offers all men--and the women in their lives--an essential guide to self-discovery. Hundreds of bold, imaginative men--celebrities as well as everyday heroes--share here their most intimate desires, deepest fears, and most fervent cravings for renewal. Decade by decade, Sheehy uncovers the real issues facing men today: finding new passion and purpose to invigorate the second half of their lives, dealing with "manopause," surviving job change, enjoying post-nesting zest, defeating depression, and learning what keeps a man young. Informative and inspiring, grounded in fact and full of fascinating life stories, Understanding Men''s Passages is a landmark that will take its place beside Gail Sheehy''s epoch-making Passages and New Passages.

Ce document exceptionnel, pour lequel l''auteur a recueilli des centaines de témoignages, raconte l''histoire vraie de la femme la plus puissante du monde. Qui est vraiment Hillary Rodham Clinton ? Quel rôle joue-t-elle dans la vie et dans les décisions de l''homme qui gouverne l''Amérique ? Pourquoi une femme aussi brillante a-t-elle choisi de rester aux côtés de son mari après avoir été trahie et publiquement humiliée ? Quel avenir l''attend à la fin du mandat présidentiel de Bill Clinton ? Divorcera-t-elle ? Réussira-t-elle à se faire élire au Sénat ? Cherchera-t-elle à devenir la première présidente des Etats-Unis ? Gail Sheehy tente de répondre à toutes ces questions. A travers ces pages, la figure d''Hillary Clinton devient le miroir de la nouvelle condition féminine au seuil du vingt et unième siècle. Une relation personnelle et ancienne de l''auteur avec Hillary et sa mère, des informations de première main, des années de recherches font de ce livre une biographie convaincante, autant qu''un instrument indispensable pour comprendre l''histoire des années récentes et de celles qui vont suivre. Parce que Le Choix d''Hillary est avant tout une histoire d''amour, un grand roman dont les ingrédients sont le sexe, le pouvoir, l''ambition, les intrigues, mais aussi l''amitié, la ténacité, la force de volonté, les tragédies personnelles.

As their lives become both longer and increasingly unpredictable, men today are faced with the urgent need to reinvent themselves. PASSAGES IN MEN''S LIVES reveals their doubts, their passions, their hunger for renewal. Hundreds of men, celebrities as well as everyday heroes, have told their stories to Gail Sheehy. Sheehy makes the case that it is men in middle life who have the best chance to become masters of their fates, to understand what is missing and forge new directions to invigorate the second half of their lives. PASSAGES IN MEN''S LIVES is a concise guide for men (and the women who care about them) as they confront the major issues of each life change, including: how can you be the father you wish your father was? Where can you find new passion and purpose? How can you deal with male menopause? How can you survive a job change or downsizing? What strategies can defeat depression? What keeps a man young? When men and women face the same passage with different needs, how does marriage survive? Offering concrete information as well as inspiration, Gail Sheehy''s PASSAGES IN MEN''S LIVES is a powerful, insightful guide to self-renewal.

Cada vez aumenta más la esperanza de vida. Llegar a los ochenta años ya no es una excepción. ¿Se acaba la vida a los cincuenta? ¿O a los sesenta? ¿Cómo desarrollar una vida en plenitud hasta el final? ¿Cómo utilizar de forma positiva toda la experiencia acumulada a lo largo de los años? Estos son los interrogantes a los que responde esta obra. En la vida de todos los hombres llega un momento en que se tienen que enfrentar a unos cambios vitales. El problema reside en que nadie les ha preparado para ello. Este libro quiere ser una guía de viaje, un manual para el autodescubrimiento. No se trata únicamente de la pérdida de potencia sexual, hoy casi corregida gracias a la medicina, sino también de aquellas crisis vitales y periodos de transición que enfrentan hombres y mujeres a medida que avanzan por la vida. Aunque estos períodos son difíciles para todo el mundo, no tienen por qué provocar una depresión ni una pérdida de autoestima o de salud. Este libro ofrece a sus lectores una visión positiva de la vida, basada en la investigación sobre cientos de casos reales. Nos cuenta cómo los hombres, en su madurez, tienen la oportunidad de ser los dueños de su destino, de ser mejores amantes, mejores padres, más auténticos respecto a sus sentimientos y más libres aun, si cabe, que en su juventud.

Presents a candid study of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, drawing on previously unavailable sources to describe his early life and his rise to political power.