Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon
“Girls Like Us is about three women whose courageous, defiant talent defined a generation. Whether you read it to rediscover that wonderfully stormy time — the ’60s and early feminist movement — or to discover it for the first time, take it to heart. Sacrifice, hard work, and daring to dream is still the tale of girls like us.” — Carole Radziwill, author of the New York Times bestseller What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
“More than the story of three pop stars, Girls Like Us chronicles a generation of young women who had a moving determination to recast their lives and loves as high adventure. Weller beautifully captures the mammoth enterprise of making a new womanhood.” — Christine Stansell, author of American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
“Juicy and politically astute, this book is a page-turner, and it fills a gaping hole in the history of the counterculture.” — Peter Biskind, bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Changed Hollywood
“Reading Girls Like Us is like sneaking into a reunion of the hippest class from the ’60s…where all the secrets come spilling out after the third glass of wine.” — Suzanne Finstad, bestselling author of Natasha: A Biography of Natalie Wood
“A wild ride through an important part of rock history that too often has been overlooked. This book will stay on my shelf next to albums like Blue and Tapestry, places I turn to to capture a more innocent and romantic era in music and in my life.” — Charles R. Cross, bestselling author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
“There were five books by my bedside when Girls Like Us arrived, but this was the book I had to keep reading. It’s filled with nuggets I hadn’t known about, and this generation of women is my subject! If you love the singers and the songs, you’ll tear through Girls Like Us.” — Sara Davidson, bestselling author of Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties and Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?