Some Are Born Great (1974)

by Adela Rogers St. Johns

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A Veteran journalist writes about some women she considers noteworthy, among them Carry Nation, Amelia Earhart, Judy Garland, Mother Cabrini, Bess Truman and Rachel Carson.

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Lively and controversial tales of some of the extraordinary women of our times. A book by Adela Rogers St. Johns about the great women she has known in her fifty-odd years of covering the news. (

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1974

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For my daughter, Elaine St. Johns to whom it already belongs. Without her enthusiastic encouragement to start it, her determination that we finish it. and her final inspired editing this book could never have been begun, finished, or fit to print.

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A Veteran journalist writes about some women she considers noteworthy, among them Carry Nation, Amelia Earhart, Judy Garland, Mother Cabrini, Bess Truman and Rachel Carson.

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