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All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography
All in a Lifetime An Autobiography
Author: Ruth K. Westheimer
She is everyones favourite sex therapist; a four-foot-seven dynamo who answers the most intimate questions with disarming candor and heartening warmth. Yet few really know the real Dr. Ruthher loves, her losses, and the irrepressible spirit that has helped her through it alluntil now. All In A Lifetime is the revealing autobiography of a fighter...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446513760
ISBN-10: 0446513768
Publication Date: 11/1987
Pages: 225
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Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
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Fascinating reading. At the age of 10 a German girl, was sent to Switerland to escape the rampant massacure of Hitler's regieme. Despite her uprooted life, she managed to get the education she longed for to become the world's most authoriative teacher and lecturer on sexual matters. She has certainly attained the "American Dream".
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Overall, the autobiography of "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer never really rises to any particular heights.

Readers who are interested in the lives of German Jewish children sent out of the country during the Second World War will get a superficial look at how the children were cared for, but won't really get an overview of the programs, or how it affected the children and shaped their subsequent lives.

Readers who want the inside story about the diminutive sex educator and media darling of the 80s won't get much more than an "and then I did this radio program and got famous." There's not much about how external events shaped the sexual mores of Americans and made them receptive to this particular celebrity at that particular time.

If you're looking for anything deeper, you won't find it here. What you'll find is a mildly interesting story about a young woman who persevered through setbacks and disappointments, but there's not much heart in it.


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