Stacy Cordery's latest book is Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire, a biography of the rags-to-riches, legendary American cosmetics and fashion entrepreneur. According to Kirkus Reviews, "beauty buffs will be rapt!" Publishers Weekly called it "as beguiling as a day of luxury beauty treatments," and Library Journal decreed it “the definitive biography of one of the United States’ first businesswomen."
Cordery is a biographer and professor of History at Iowa State University. She is the author of Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, a New York Times notable non-fiction book widely extolled for its depth of research and engaging prose. Her biography, Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts, also earned wide praise. Cordery is a popular speaker and has appeared on such venues as NPR, the History Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, the Diane Rehm Show, and the Smithsonian Channel.
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