About this item
Take an enthralling and richly illustrated trip through the official real-world story of the Barbie™ doll - from groundbreaking toy to beacon of female empowerment.. Created in partnership with Mattel to celebrate Barbie doll's 65th anniversary and featuring rare images from their archives, Barbie: Her Inspiration, History, and Legacy is a stunning tribute to the beloved pop culture icon that has echoed the taste, style, and events of every decade she has experienced.. Recall the joy of opening a brand-new Barbie box with this sumptuously designed book chronicling every step in the beloved doll's journey, from entrepreneurial pioneer Ruth Handler's creation of Barbie in 1959 to the record-breaking film in 2023, and beyond, including: The Birth of Barbie - Learn how Ruth Handler came up with the idea of a doll that allowed little girls to play at being women, then overcame a parade of challenges - including disbelief from her male colleagues that mothers would buy their daughters an adult doll with full-grown breasts - and persevered to create the wildly successful Barbie doll and prove her doubters wrong.
About the Author
Robin Gerber is a speaker on leadership, using moving stories from the lives of Ruth Handler, Eleanor Roosevelt and others to illustrate leadership lessons. She is available for speaking, and can be reached at robin@robingerber.com.She is the author of Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way: Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage (Penguin/Portfolio, 2002) and Katharine Graham: The Leadership Journey of an American Icon with a foreword by Jim Collins, author of Good to Great (Penguin/Portfolio, October, 2005) . Her books are used in leadership development courses and corporate programs across the United States. Robin has been published in numerous national newspapers and magazines, and has been a commentator on NPR's Marketplace, Morning Edition, On Point and Diane Rehm. She has appeared on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer and dozens of radio talk shows.Robin's speaking clients include Bank of America, IBM, Marriott, Legg Mason, JP Morgan/Chase, Freddie Mac, Aetna Information Services, the AARP, Lee Hecht Harrison, Giant Food, The Culinary Institute, West Point, the U.S. Forest Service, the Council for Excellence in Government, The National Conference of State Legislators, The 3rd Quality Conference of the European Union, and many universities, colleges, girls' schools, nonprofits and government agencies. Prior to becoming an author, Robin practiced law in Washington, D.C. and worked on Capitol Hill. She has studied and written about leadership development since 1975.
