Amazon Review Synopsis
The celebrated chronicler of the lives of such notorious people as Jean Harris and Patty Hearst now
turns her lens on her own unconventional family--and on herself--in a poignant, enthralling memoir.
Alexander presents a startlingly honest account of her life--professional and personal--including her
successful career as a commentator on 60 Minutes. 37 photos. From the Publisher
Shana Alexander spent much of her life trying to figure out her enigmatic parents, Milton and Cecelia Ager. The eccentric fifty-seven-year Ager marriage had begun at the start of the Jazz Age, 1922, when twenty-nine-year-old Milton, already a prince of Tin Pan Alley, met Cecelia, a chic twenty-year-old California blonde.