{"product_id":"the-spirit-of-achievement-greg-bachar-9781886934160","title":"The Spirit of Achievement: Articles, Essays, Speeches","description":"After Jacqueline met Lili Miura, the owner of Miura Advertising \u0026amp; Marketing and publisher of \u003ci\u003eTorrance Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePalos Verdes Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, she proposed becoming a contributing editor responsible for identifying and writing articles about local people and a column provisionally titled \"Woman of Achievement,\" later revised to \"The Spirit of Achievement.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMiura agreed, and from 1995 to 1999, Jacqueline Miller Bachar wrote 40 articles and interviews for \u003ci\u003ePV Style\u003c\/i\u003e. She also wrote several short stories, a half dozen poems, published a collection of letters discovered during her family genealogy work that were written by an aunt eight generations removed, \u003ci\u003eLife on the Ohio Frontier: A Collection of Letters from Mary Lott to Deacon John Phillips, 1826-1846\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited and published \u003ci\u003ePoetry in the Garden, \u003c\/i\u003ean anthology of California women poets.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1995, she spoke about another relative, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at the United Nations, and was guest speaker at the Stanton Foundation's 1995 celebration of Stanton's birthday held at the Women's Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. She was named to head the International Hospitality Committee (West Coast \/ Los Angeles) for the National Council of Women USA.\u003cbr\u003e In this role, she recruited more members than any other individual known in the history of the NCW, and in 1998, was the first recipient of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Appreciation Award, presented in New York at the Women of Conscience Award Luncheon.\u003cbr\u003eJacqueline and her husband Paul Bachar retired to Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley in 1999, where she wrote articles for the \u003ci\u003eDesert Sun\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper and its \u003ci\u003eNext\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, started a chocolate company, served as a board member or volunteer for several local organizations, and continued to experiment with writing fiction and poetry.\u003cbr\u003eShe was producer and host of \u003ci\u003eThe Jacqueline Bachar Show\u003c\/i\u003e in Palm Springs from 2009-2011, featuring international, national, and local authors, people in the arts, and community and charity organizations. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe received a Woman of Distinction in the Arts award 2010 from the National League of Pen Women, Palm Springs, and was awarded a Certificate of Congressional Recognition.\u003cbr\u003eEven though she wrote poems, short stories, screenplays, a new speech about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Lott, and polished manuscripts during this period, the writing output collected here that began as she approached her 60th year and continued flowing over ten years evenly split between the ocean and the desert represents an especially crystallized creative peak. \u003cbr\u003eThe work in this volume serves as evidence supporting the notion that consistently engaging with one's creative interests is not an endeavor of simply finding time to fit such activities into one's life, but life itself, and the embodiment of the spirit of achievement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJacqueline Miller Bachar is the editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry in The Garden, \u003c\/i\u003ean anthology of California women poets, and \u003ci\u003eLife on The Ohio Frontier: A Collection of Letters from Mary Lott to Deacon John Phillips, 1826-1846; \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eAn Exploration of Boundaries: Art Therapy, Art Education, Psychotherapy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eImages of a Woman: A Memoir Journal; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e La Fête de La Vie (Stories \u0026amp; Poems). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Bachar,Jacqueline Miller Bachar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1886934169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781886934160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowhouse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Greg Bachar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440091902207,"sku":"9781886934160","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3b0f3f2-3cf4-4848-878d-ae76d3767c7d.jpg?v=1777180322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-spirit-of-achievement-greg-bachar-9781886934160","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}