Miss America:  In Pursuit of the Crown

Miss America:  In Pursuit of the Crown

by Ann-Marie Bivans, Introduction by Leonard C. Horn

This book is a remarkable work which traces the history of the Miss America program and brings you directly to the events that changed the standards for Miss America over the years.

This is book about America's number one beauty pagent.  However, it is also a great respective of hairstyles starting with Miss America 1926 until Miss America of 1991.  I was fascinated with all the photos of the various beauty queens over the years and the history behind the pagent.

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If you love beauty pagents or photos of hairstyles of beauty queen winners over the last 70 years you will love this large hard cover book.  It actually could work as a traditional "coffee table" book because of its large sive and diamond encrusted tiara on the front cover.  This book has all the trivia on the pagent including black and white photos of all the winners from the beginning until 1991 when this book was published.  It also has lots of good scoops on how the judges are picked, what happens right after the winner is selected and interesting facts about various scandals that have occurred over the years including the famous Vanessa Williams scandel.

There are only a few color photographs in the book.  The rest of the many photos are black and white, but they are well done and very interesting.

I actually enjoyed this book.  Not only did I love looking at all the photographs, but I was fascinated with some of the behind the scenes information on past winners.

I would strongly recommend this book.  It is well worth the money if you can find a published version.  Be sure and check out all the big hair and the giant curls on some of the former winners.  You will be amazed that hair that looked like that was ever so popular.

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Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Mastermedia Publishing Company (August 1, 1991)
ISBN: 094236127X