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Great for Brady fans

  • Sep 15, 2009
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In the 70s, I thought Marcia Brady was the perfect girl-next-door; Maureen McCormick played her so naturally I assumed she was, too. This autobiography is quite an eye-opener, detailing not only her show business career but also her descent into drug use and countless affairs. She talks a lot about her troubled family and her debilitating, lifelong fears and secrets.

Although she describes shocking and frightening events, she writes with a detached, almost unemotional tone and I think the book would have benefited with the help of a professional writer. Still, it's quite interesting, especially for fans of The Brady Bunch. With many photos.
Book cover McCormick as Marcia Brady The author today

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 For countless adolescents across America who came of age in the early 1970s, Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, was the ideal American teenager. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, always perfect Marcia was that Maureen McCormick, the young actress who portrayed her, was living a very different—and not-so-wonderful—life.

In Here's the Story, Maureen takes us behind the scenes of America's favorite television family—and reveals with poignancy and candor how she landed on the dark side, caught up in a fast-paced, drug-fueled, star-studded Hollywood nightmare that led to the biggest, most important battle of her life. This brave, hard-hitting memoir exposes a side of a beloved pop-culture icon the paparazzi missed. Yet ultimately it is also a story of success and survival—an empowering, engaging, shocking, and emotional true tale of a young woman's lifelong battle to come to terms with the idea of perfection...and with herself.

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ISBN-10: 0061490156 (pbk.)
ISBN-13: 9780061490156 (pbk.)
Author: Maureen McCormick
Genre: Biography
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Date Published: September 8, 2009
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