The Resource Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her, Robin Gerber
Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her, Robin Gerber
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The item Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her, Robin Gerber represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System.
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- Summary
- The tragic and redeeming story of how one visionary woman, Ruth Handler, built the biggest toy company in the world and created a global icon
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 278 p.
- Contents
-
- The doll nobody wanted
- The tenth child
- Love at a nickel a dance
- Ruth and Elliot and Matt
- A working mother
- Uke-a-doodles
- Music makers and sour notes
- Gambling everything on Mickey Mouse
- The woman and the doll
- Soaring in the sixties
- Toys, money, and power
- Hot wheels and hot deals
- The cancer within
- The plot unravels
- Nearly me
- The wages of fraud
- Forced service
- Ken and a time of plague
- Her way
- Isbn
- 9780061341311
- Label
- Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her
- Title
- Barbie and Ruth
- Title remainder
- the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her
- Statement of responsibility
- Robin Gerber
- Title variation
- Barbie and Ruth
- Title variation remainder
- the story of the worlds most famous doll and the woman who created her
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The tragic and redeeming story of how one visionary woman, Ruth Handler, built the biggest toy company in the world and created a global icon
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 302960
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gerber, Robin
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Handler, Ruth
- Dollmakers
- Barbie dolls
- Mattel, Inc
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her
- Label
- Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her, Robin Gerber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-266) and index
- Contents
- The doll nobody wanted -- The tenth child -- Love at a nickel a dance -- Ruth and Elliot and Matt -- A working mother -- Uke-a-doodles -- Music makers and sour notes -- Gambling everything on Mickey Mouse -- The woman and the doll -- Soaring in the sixties -- Toys, money, and power -- Hot wheels and hot deals -- The cancer within -- The plot unravels -- Nearly me -- The wages of fraud -- Forced service -- Ken and a time of plague -- Her way
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 278 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061341311
- Lccn
- 2008029838
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)232977462
- Label
- Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her, Robin Gerber
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-266) and index
- Contents
- The doll nobody wanted -- The tenth child -- Love at a nickel a dance -- Ruth and Elliot and Matt -- A working mother -- Uke-a-doodles -- Music makers and sour notes -- Gambling everything on Mickey Mouse -- The woman and the doll -- Soaring in the sixties -- Toys, money, and power -- Hot wheels and hot deals -- The cancer within -- The plot unravels -- Nearly me -- The wages of fraud -- Forced service -- Ken and a time of plague -- Her way
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- ix, 278 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061341311
- Lccn
- 2008029838
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)232977462
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