A portrait of the woman behind the iconic image offers a study of the the real Martha Stewart, chronicling her struggle to reach the top, her ordeal in prison, and her celebration of the good things in life.

"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists,...