Kass, Linda Stern

Summary: "Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical...

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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023

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Argetsinger, Amy

Summary: An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 ARG

Summary: Documentary about the friendship between a cerebral palsy patient and a Miss America contestant.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: [s. n.] 2003

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Friedman, Hilary Levey

Summary: "Many predicted that pageants would disappear by the 21st century. Yet they are thriving. America's most enduring contest, Miss America, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2020. Why do they persist? In Here She Is, Hilary Levey Friedman reveals the surprising ways pageants have been an empowering feminist tradition. She traces the role of pageants in many of the feminist movement's signature...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020

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Mifflin, Margot

Summary: "Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers anddissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.6 MIF

Contents: Vol. 4 The mighty Hercules -- Gunsmoke -- Walt Disney's wonderful world of color -- M-squad -- Adventures in Paradise -- Miss America pageant ; Vol. 5 H. R. Pufnstuf -- Stingray -- Here come the brides -- The men from Shiloh -- Police woman -- Six million dollar man -- Hullabaloo ; Vol. 6 The price is right -- What's happening? -- Alice -- The dukes of Hazard -- Moonlighting -- Knight rider ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: TeeVee Toons, Inc. 1986

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC Tee

Clayton, Meg Waite.

Summary: Five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the Wednesday Sisters share a love of writing, literary classics, and the Miss America Pageant--in a moving testament to the mysterious link between friends.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

Sundquist, Josh.

Summary: "Why was [Paralympic ski racer and cancer survivor] Josh still single? To find out, he tracked down the girls he had tried to date and asked them straight up: what went wrong? The results of Josh's semiscientific, wholly hilarious investigation are captured here: disastrous Putt-Putt date involving a backward prosthetic foot, to his introduction to CFD (Close Fast Dancing), to a misguided...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SUN

Carlson, Gretchen

Summary: "A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real world. With warmth and wit, she takes readers from her Minnesota childhood, where she became a violin prodigy,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARLSON, GRETCHEN CAR