You Can Get There from HereImmensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity, sensitivity, warmth, and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience, Shirley MacLaine beings a very special quality of mind and heart to her acting, to her writing, to her travels. You Can Get There From Here is a remarkable memoir--the exciting and revealing journey of a woman who rediscovers the world an herself.Shirley MacLaine's first taste of professional disaster.The flowering of her social and political consciousness.The China trip that will change her life.From an ill-fated television series in the early 1970's that goes against everything she believes in...to her impassioned efforts on behalf of a major presidential candidate...to her emergence as an important voice in the international women's movement...to her life-affirming odyssey to the People's Republic of China--this is the unforgettable story of Shirley MacLaine's road from a crisis of self-doubt to a joyous new stage in her life.A fascinating book...She is an articulate sophisticated woman of the world. -- The New York Times Intensely personal...Written in candid, natural style...Spiced with well-told anecdotes and revealing vignettes...All can enjoy the journey's of Shirley MacLaine. -- Best Sellers |
Contents
Section 1 | 11 |
Section 2 | 15 |
Section 3 | 27 |
Section 4 | 32 |
Section 5 | 40 |
Section 6 | 44 |
Section 7 | 52 |
Section 8 | 60 |
Section 15 | 112 |
Section 16 | 121 |
Section 17 | 129 |
Section 18 | 140 |
Section 19 | 150 |
Section 20 | 154 |
Section 21 | 164 |
Section 22 | 172 |
Section 9 | 63 |
Section 10 | 69 |
Section 11 | 77 |
Section 12 | 82 |
Section 13 | 87 |
Section 14 | 94 |
Section 23 | 190 |
Section 24 | 199 |
Section 25 | 209 |
Section 26 | 230 |
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