Ann Blackma has spent thirty years as a news reporter chronicling cultural changes in American life. Before joining "Time" magazine in 1985 as deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C., she worked for the "Boston Globe" and the Associated Press. She served as a foreign correspondent for "Time" in Moscow from 1987 to 1990. Since then, she has covered American social policy, as well as First Lady Hillary Clinton, from "Time"'s Washington, D.C., bureau. Blackman lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children. This is her first book.