Bøger af Liza Mundy

The incredible true story of the female analysts who defied institutional sexism and helped bring down Bin Laden

"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated workplace in Eisenhower America, the growing intelligence agency needed women to type memos, send messages, manipulate expense accounts, and keep secrets. Despite discrimination-even because of it-these clerks and secretaries rose to become some of the shrewdest, toughest operatives the agency employed. Because women were seen as unimportant, they moved unnoticed on the streets of Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets under the noses of the KGB. Back at headquarters, they built the CIA's critical archives-first by hand, then by computer. These women also battled institutional stereotyping and beat it. Men argued they alone could run spy rings. But the women proved they could be spymasters, too. During the Cold War, women made critical contributions to U.S. intelligence, sometimes as officers, sometimes as unpaid spouses, working together as their numbers grew. The women also made unique sacrifices, giving up marriage, children, even their own lives. They noticed things that the men at the top didn't see. In the final years of the twentieth century, it was a close-knit network of female CIA analysts who warned about the rising threat of Al Qaeda. After the 9/11 attacks, women rushed to join the fight as a new job, "targeter," came to prominence. They showed that painstaking data analysis would be crucial to the post-9/11 national security landscape-an effort that culminated spectacularly in the CIA's successful efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden and, later, Ayman al-Zawahiri. With the same meticulous reporting and storytelling verve that she brought to her New York Times bestseller Code Girls, Liza Mundy has written an indispensable and sweeping history that reveals how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age"--

A revolution is underway: within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men.In The Richer Sex, bestselling author and Washington Post writer Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of a new economic order, showing why more households will be supported by women than by men within a generation and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end. She goes deep inside the lives of cutting-edge couples to paint a picture of how dating, sex, marriage, and home life are changing. She also investigates all the new, sometimes highly personal debates born in a society that can no longer assume the male is the primary breadwinner. This wild ride into the future, grounded in Mundy’s peerless journalism, will cause women and men of all generations to rethink the meaning of this social upheaval.

Michelle Obama har sin egen måde at sige tingene på så man tror, man kan alting. Humor, personlig stil, varme, hun kan være stærk og sej og alligevel ikke virke negativ. Hun har timing. Hun kan sende en et blik, så man bliver nødt til at le.Lydbogen fortæller om en moderne, selvstændig og veltalende kvinde. En kvinde, som efter sigende har været udslagsgivende for Barack Obamas historiske sejr, men også en kvinde, der har udtalt sig skarpt og kontroversielt om ømtålelige emner: USA's internationale omdømme, ligestilling mellem kønnene og ikke mindst landets lange og smertefulde historie om race og diskrimination.Copyright @ Liza Mundy, 2008Oversat af Steen Fiil fra Michelle - a biographyMichelle Obama, Barack Obama, førstedamer, historie, 1990-1999, 2000-2009, politik, politikere, USA