{"product_id":"busting-stones-jim-defilippi-9798860377912","title":"Busting Stones: The Trials and Treasures of Martha Gellhorn","description":"\u003cp\u003eBUSTING STONES by Jim DeFilippi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha Gellhorn was the greatest war correspondent in American history, but she was\/is unknown, unappreciated, undervalued because of her sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBUSTING STONES tracks her life against the backdrop of the 20th Century Women's Movement. The book breaks the ten decades of her life (1908-1998) into ten chapters, each chapter containing a short segment on: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe mood of the country during that time;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe progress or the stagnancy of the decade's Women's Movement;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn enemy of the country or of women (anyone from Adolph Hitler to Hugh Hefner);\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGellhorn's life;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer progress as a writer;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer tragedy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn added section (The 2000's) highlights how her fire and spirit are still alive in today's American women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome key elements: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1940's, her future husband, Ernest Hemingway, usurped her \u003ci\u003eCollier Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e correspondent's credentials because he wanted to cover the Normandy Invasion. He wound up getting into a drunken car accident and spent the invasion in a London hospital bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile Gellhorn, without any credentialing, snuck aboard a Navy hospital ship and became the only woman among the 195,000 men to land at Normandy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, the horrors of Vietnam and her own rape destroyed her will and her strength, leading to her suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarning: I am primarily a crime novelist. The voice of this book is not Doris Kearns Goodwin historian. It is more street-corner thug. A fake-tough man writing about a real-tough woman. This lends a quirky irony to the text and to the subject matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Defilippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8860377919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798860377912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Jim Defilippi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321264271615,"sku":"9798860377912","price":10.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9587e2d2-85d6-4422-8a60-551431e8c151.jpg?v=1696329990","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/busting-stones-jim-defilippi-9798860377912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}