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There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America

Bottom of the pile

11

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

5/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Amy Argetsinger

Publisher:

Atria/One Signal Publishers

Date:

September 7, 2021

A Washington Post's Style editor's look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary.

What The Reviewers Say

Joanna Scutts,
Air Mail
Breezy.
Lisa Birnbach,
Washington Post
All this will be fascinating to beauty (and scholarship) pageant devotees who are curious about the before, during and immediate afterward of a winner’s life.
Olive Fellows,
The Christian Science Monitor
What keeps them vying for a title that many people think of as outdated? The best person to answer this question may well be Amy Argetsinger.

Publishers Weekly
An earnest, gossip-fueled history of the Miss America pageant.