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Kara Jesella

Kara Jesella is the co-author of How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

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The Sexual Revolutionary

Helen Gurley Brown made it good to be bad, but was she a great feminist? A new biography argues that Cosmo’s editor belongs in the pantheon with Betty Friedan. By Kara Jesella.

Kara Jesella

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