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'There She Was': Amy Argetsinger on the secret history of the Miss America pageant

'There She Was': Amy Argetsinger on the secret history of the Miss America pageant

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Author Amy Argetsinger joins The Post to discuss her new book "There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America,” which explores the Miss America Organization’s 100-year history and its role in defining femininity in America.

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The Miss America Organization celebrates its 100th birthday in
September. What started as a local event meant to extend the
tourism season past Labor Day turned into a heralded nationwide
pageant and scholarship program that has survived its own history
of sexism and misogyny. Washington Post writer Amy Argetsinger’s
retrospective book “There She Was: A Secret History of Miss
America” takes readers on a journey through American feminist
history, racism, the end of the swimsuit competition and the
pageant’s recent steep decline in viewership.