Women Who Made a Difference

by Malcolm Forbes, Jeff Bloch (Contributor)

The lives of 100 remarkable women who changed the world, told in the inimitable, bestsellinhg Forbes style. No stranger to the famous, Forbes delved beneath the surface of renown to uncover the powerful pesonalities of some extraordinary women.

Queen Alexandra.--Virginia Apgar.--Aspasia.--Sarah Todd Astor.--Delia Bacon.--James Barry.--Sylvia Beach.--Amelia Bloomer.--Nellie Bly.--Boudicca.--Louise Boyd.--Laura Bridgman.--Margaret "Molly" Brown.--Anna Carroll.--Mary Chesnut.--Elsie De Wolfe.--Abigail Duniway.--Margaret Eaton.--Sarah Emma Edmonds.--Mary Moody Emerson.--Dorothy Eustis.--Minna / Aida Everleigh.--Fannie Farmer.--Jane Franklin.--Rosalind Franklin.--Jessie Benton Fremont.--Myra Clark Gaines.--Sophie Germain.--Irene Langhorne Gibson.--Mary Katherine Goddard.--Rebecca Gratz.--Hetty Green.--Rose O'Neal Greenhow.--Peggy Guggenheim.--Anne Hutchinson.--Hypatia.--Anna Jarvis.--Pope Joan.--Mother Jones.--Frances Kelsey.--Khadija.--Mary Kingsley.--Margaret Knight.--Rase Knox.--Pannonica de Koenigswarter.--Margaret Getchell LaForge.--Florence Lawrence.--Ida Lewis.--Ann Lohman "Madame Restell".--Mabel Dodge Luhan.--Clara Maass.--Molly Maguire.--Malinche.--Mary Mallon.--Elsa Maxwell.--Katharine McCormick.--Jane McCrea.--Fanny Mendelssohn.--Perle Mesta.--Julia Morgan.--Belle Moskowitz.--Mary Murray. Caroline Norton.--Mrs. O'Leary.--Bertha Palmer.--Fanny Palmer.--Cynthia Ann Parker.--Hannah Callowhill Penn.--Mary Pennington.--Eliza Lucas Pinckney.--Lydia Pinkham.--Molly Pitcher.--Mary Ellen Pleasant.--Madame de Pompadour.--Ida Rosenthal.--Anne Newport Royall.--Sacagawea.--Hester Stanhope.--Belle Starr.--Margarete Steiff.--Lucy Stone.--Mary Surratt.--Bertha Von Suttner.--Ida Tarbell.--Annie Taylor.--Theodora the Senatrix.--Julia Tuttle.--Madame C.J. Walker.--Ida Wells.--Edith Bolling Wilson.--Victoria Woodhull.--Mary Wortley Montagu.--Ann Eliza Young

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Womens Studies

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of an odd book. Malcolm Forbes, financier, millionaire, and founder of Forbes magazine, is also a history buff, and decided to write this book. It has short, (2-5 pages) essays about many women throughout history who have made a difference. Sometimes it is a small difference, but nonetheless, all the stories are interesting. There are no footnotes or references of any kind, so you are just assuming all his information is accurate. Interesting women, and deserving of some recognition, but you have to take this book with a grain of salt.

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three page summaries of the the magazine publisher Publisher Malcom Forbes thinks are women who madea difference.the list maybe fine but the bios are so abbreviated as to be bordering on rumour. Better would be to take the list and llook up their lives in the encyclopedia.

[LA · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not sure what credentials that Forbes and Bloch had for writing this book. An entertaining book, but not worth more than a single go-over.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The best man for a job is often a woman.”

[Karen Nickelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay - nice quick read and some of the things were really interesting.

[Bonni Sweet]

I didn't find this book that interesting. There were a a few women listed who I thought had interesting stories but the rest......either I really didn't know or I had no interest in them. Someone else may find this book fascinating but I did not.

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Forbes was working on this book when he died and his son finished it. It's not only good women- it's ones who changed the status quo. Interesting, though I know I won't remember names.

[Jane Gunn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun and easy read about some women I was familiar with and several that I had never heard of

[Sundry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book.