CD Audiobook
Life of the party [sound recording] : the remarkable story of how Brownie Wise built, and lost, a Tupperware party empire / Bob Kealing.
Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Peggy Olson, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a record breaking sales engine powered by American housewives. Here Bob Kealing offers the definitive portrait of Wise, a plucky businesswoman who divorced her alcoholic husband, started her own successful business, and eventually caught the eye of Tupperware inventor, Earl Tupper, whose plastic containers were collecting dust on store shelves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780451483386
- Physical Description: 7 audio discs (9 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio/Books on Tape, [2016]
- Copyright: ℗2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. Subtitle from container. "Previously published as Tupperware Unsealed"--Container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kimberly Farr. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Audiobooks. |
Show Only Available Copies
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | CD 338.7668497092 Wise-K 7 discs | 31681010028272 | CDNONFIC | Available | - |
Bob Kealing is an Edward R. Murrow and four-time Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist based in Orlando Florida at WESH-TV. He has appeared on national programs such as Dateline NBC, the Today Show, CBS This Morning, and has appeared as a guest on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and C-SPAN. The author of four non-fiction books, Kealing&;s research led to the establishment of the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, a literary landmark in the National Register of Historic Places, and Gram Parsons Derry Down, a Florida Heritage site honoring the pioneering country rock musician in his birthplace, Winter Haven.  Kealing lives north of Orlando with his wife, son and daughter.
