You Can Get There From Here

About this book

Immensely gifted with intelligence curiosity sensitivity warmth and a profound openness to people and places outside her own experience Shirley MacLaine beings a very special quality of mind and heart to her acting to her writing to her travels. You Can Get There From Here is a remarkable memoir--the exciting and revealing journey of a woman who rediscovers the world an herself. From an ill-fated television series in the early 1970s that goes against everything she believes in...to her impassioned efforts on behalf of a major presidential candidate...to her emergence as an important voice in the international womens movement...to her life-affirming odyssey to the Peoples Republic of China--this is the unforgettable story of Shirley MacLaines road from a crisis of self-doubt to a joyous new stage in her life.