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by Margo Howard,Melissa Hughes,Ann Landers

ISBN: 0792731026
Author: Margo Howard,Melissa Hughes,Ann Landers
Language: English
Publisher: Sound Library (December 2003)
Category: Professionals & Academics
Subcategory: Biography
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A Life In Letters book. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir.

A Life In Letters book.

A LIFE IN LETTERS - even for me - is like watching two lives unfolding. The book is punctuated with notes from Margo that give background to the letters.

Ships from and sold by Books Mela. A LIFE IN LETTERS - even for me - is like watching two lives unfolding. At one point in her introduction she was astounded to learn that her mom had saved all of her letters, just as she had saved her mom's. It's clear that this writing --and their relationship -- meant a lot to them both. Readers also get a look at another side of Landers. We see a woman who was politically active and had a strong business sense.

In March 1940, she gave birth to her only child, Margo, who became an advice columnist herself almost 60 years later, as Margo Howard. A life in letters: Ann Landers's letters to her only child. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-446-53271-6. In 1944, at the age of 56, Lederer's mother Rebecca Friedman died of a cerebral hemorrhage Between 1945 and 1949, Lederer was chairwoman of the Minnesota-Wisconsin council of the Anti Defamation League. Eppie becomes Ann. In Chicago, 1983.

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A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child. New York, NY: Warner Books, 2003. Ann's daughter, advice columnist Margo Howard, gets ugly with advice columnist Amy Dickinson". "Ann Landers," The Post-Register (Idaho Falls), October 16, 1955, pB-2.

Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child. Genre: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Rich & Famous.

Landers, Ann, and Margo Howard. A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child". Ann Landers - Comunicación La televisión ha demostrado que los seres humanos están dispuestos a mirar cualquier cosa antes que mirarse unos a otro. iccionario de citas. Ann Landers - Esther Pauline (Eppie) Lederer.

Melissa Hughes sounds the way we imagine Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) would. These letters are very different and far more personal. These are the letters of a Jewish mother to her only child. Her voice is clear and well modulated, and a pleasure to listen to. The letters will interest those who want a more intimate look at a woman who influenced many in the second half of the twentieth century. Hearing these letters can make one slightly uncomfortable-like reading someone else's personal letters from home. They are admonishing, cajoling, encouraging, gossipy, and generally upbeat. They read like anybody's letters from home.

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Growing up I regularly read Ann Landers' column. The book is punctuated with notes from Margo that give background to the letters

Growing up I regularly read Ann Landers' column. Living in a small town in New Jersey, I got a new perspective on the world from letters signed by people with signatures like Desperate in Dallas and Confused in Cincinnati.

America's most beloved columnist shares 40 years of advice through letters to her only child, published here for the first time. In this witty, wise, and intensely personal collection of letters to her daughter Margo, Ann Landers delivers her own unintentional memoir. The volume is both a moving portrait of a mother/daughter relationship and a keen social history of America between 1958 and 2001. Peppered with incisive information and gossip, Esther 'Eppie' Lederer (Landers' real name) offers insight on everything from marriage and divorce to growing up and growing old. A first-hand account of the myriad changes in attitudes and mores spanning the last half of the last century, readers will delight in Landers' signature practical wisdom and sharp eye for the absurd. As funny and loving as they are stern and acerbic, these letters reveal the real woman behind the Ann Landers moniker-a spectacularly original writer, wife, and mother.

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Bralore

Growing up I regularly read Ann Landers' column. I can even remember my favorite ones --- the one with the meatloaf recipe and the one about how to hang a roll of toilet paper. Living in a small town in New Jersey, I got a new perspective on the world from letters signed by people with signatures like Desperate in Dallas and Confused in Cincinnati. Sometimes I would howl at what people were asking while other times I was shocked at the depths of the problems that people shared.
Reading the column each day I formed a picture of Landers. When she passed away in 2002, I read the tributes to her and realized this was the end of an era.
A LIFE IN LETTERS: Ann Landers Letters to Her Only Child showed me another side of Landers. For here were the letters that personally defined her ---- those she wrote to her daughter Margo over forty-four years. Broken up into four sections, the book tells the story of a close mother/daughter relationship. Here, again in her own words, we come to know Esther "Eppie" Lederer (Landers' real name).
Whether she was giving Margo advice, checking in to see how she was or lavishing praise, Landers wrote with the tone of a well-meaning friend. The excitement that Landers felt in sharing her life with Margo is touchingly evident. Many of her notes to Margo were hurried pieces while others were long and leisurely, but all were personal and laced with love.
Margo has said, "I loved putting this collection together. And strange as it may sound, reading them all, together, was an entirely different experience than seeing them one at a time. A LIFE IN LETTERS - even for me - is like watching two lives unfolding."
The book is punctuated with notes from Margo that give background to the letters. At one point in her introduction she was astounded to learn that her mom had saved all of her letters, just as she had saved her mom's. It's clear that this writing ---and their relationship --- meant a lot to them both.
Readers also get a look at another side of Landers. We see a woman who was politically active and had a strong business sense. She had access to the powerful and the famous because of who she was --- people such as Walter Cronkite, Hubert Humphery and Cardinal Joseph Bernadin. She also believed in many causes and supported them with her time and her opinions.
There is enough reference to the feud between Landers and her twin sister, who penned the Dear Abby column for years, to be honest, but Landers takes the high road and remains a real lady.
Right after Landers' death, I clipped her meatloaf recipe from the paper and made it. After closing Margo's book I vowed to write more letters to my sons. Last week I was passing my older son's room and saw a recent IM session between us printed and tacked onto the wall. Sure instant communication like that is wonderful, but the preservation of letters like those in this book reminds me how much history we lose when we do not write.
Whether you are a Landers fan or just relish the chance to voyeur a very special relationship as it grows over the years, A LIFE IN LETTERS is a wonderful read.
--- Reviewed by Carol Fitzgerald

Anazan

Unless you worship Ann Landers for years and know her background to some degree, this book may be quite anecdotal and a gathered pieces of personal events.