num_pages: 288
description: When E. Jean Carroll author of Ask E. Jean in Elle Magazine realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in commonproblems caused by menshe hit the road. Criss-crossing the country with her blue-haired poodle Lewis Carroll E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden Vermont and Tallulah Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For?E. Jean gave her rollicking road trip a sly stylish turn when she deepened the story creating a list called The Most Hideous Men of My Life and began to reflect on her own sometimes very dark history with the opposite sex. What advice would she have given to her past selvesas Miss Cheerleader USA and Miss Indiana University? Or as the fearless journalist television host and eventual advice columnist she became? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the outspoken people she meets on her road trip with her own history of bad behavior from mafia bosses media titans boyfriends husbands a serial killer and others. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.
language: English
title: What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal
publisher: St. Martin's Press