Mary Lisa Gave nas\, author of Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America&rsquo\;s B illion-Dollar Beauty Industry\, was named a Fellow at the Leon Levy C enter for Biography and has been cited as an expert commentator on the bea uty business and female entrepreneurship (CBS\, NBC\, CNN\, BBC-4). A form er senior editor at Glamour\, InStyle\, and Mirabell a\, and columnist for Elle\, she has contributed to The New York Times Magazine\, Fast Company\, and other national outlets.
\nThe only woman in \;Forbes&rsquo\; Greatest Business Stories of All Time \;and the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange\, Mary Kay Ash has a life story that reads like a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel. Based on fifteen years of research\, Selling Opportunity gives us a page-turning rags-to-riches story set against the background of direct selling in all its overstated\, over -the-top glory. Here\, for the first time\, is the definitive history of a peculiarly American industry and a mid-century mindset that ennobled extr eme self-reliance\, sticking to your guns\, and blind faith in the America n dream.
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\nASL interpretation will be provid ed for all Six Bridges sessions held in CALS Ron Robinson Theater. ASL int erpretation for sessions at other CALS locations and Six Bridges venues (i ncluding CALS Main Library) will be provided by request. To request ASL in terpretation\, please submit an ASL Interpretation Request form.
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