Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews, the author documents the burial process thoughout the centuries and in different cultures.

The story of women war correspondent in World War II and how they reported war news. Tells about flying bombing missions, taking photographs inside Buchenwald, stowing away on D-Day hospital ships, dodging bullets on Iwo Jima, and more. Margaret Bourke-White, Nellie Bly, Lee Miller, Martha Gellhorn, Virginia Cowles, Sonia Tomara, Toni Frissell, Dickey Chapelle and more are included.

A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.