"[This book] is a woman's and journalist's daring venture into an area exhausted by research and controversy . . . Engaging and revealing reading . . . the reader begins to see eleven colorful personalities, with rich background not visible in history books on the topic . . . [the author] never becomes confrontational but emerges as a careful and sensitive interviewer . . . This book resists stereotyping, juxtaposing men and women, and valorizing,...