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The long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking bestseller, now Dr. Laura focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster.Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage, spouses must recognize and appreciate the polarity between masculine and feminine. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction. Using real-life examples from her call-in radio show, and giving real-life solutions, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships and shows how marriages can come back from the brink of disaster and divorce. ... Read more

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the hottest thing to hit national radio since Rush Limbaugh. Sixty thousand people call in to The Dr. Laura Show every day to get abused and berated for admitting their flaws and imperfections. Nearly twenty million people tune in across the country to listen to the humiliation, and more than 2.5 million have bought one of her bestsellers-with the latest book hitting bookstores this September. Dr. Laura has been the subject of countless articles, including features in Vanity Fair and New York magazine. And she recently announced that she has signed an exclusive deal for an hour-long, daily, innovative daytime TV program showcasing her unique insights into today's issues and problems, which will begin airing in the fall of 2000.

Catering to a nearly spellbound cult following, Dr. Laura has built a veritable media empire by spreading moral wisdom and commonsense advice. But what the enchanted public doesn't know is that Schlessingers' own life is a labyrinth of contradictions-from her own divorce (she openly and adamantly chastises divorcees on the air) to her estrangement for her sister and mother (she is known for her supposedly emphatic adherence to family). And is the doctor really a licensed physician? Find out what classmates, colleagues, patients, and pals have to say about the real Dr. Laura! This book turns the tables on America's number-one moral drill sergeant and professional perfectionist, revealing the personal inconsistencies that define the guru himself.
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Surprisingly Well-Researched Expose That Quotes Those Close to Dr. Laura
This isn't another tabloid-style book trashing the subject.It's an amazingly well-researched story of what Dr. Laura is really like.

At first it's hard to believe that this will be any good because the author admits that when she was given the assignment she had never heard of Dr. Laura!But that turns out to be an advantage because the author can give an objective view of the subject from those who were close to her.

The author was able to meet with Dr. Laura's mother, college roommate, the man she lived with and others who knew her well.The stories are shocking--and the worst aren't just from the distant past. The radio host likes to claim she used to do bad things, but this book shows that she has continued to act negatively.Dr. Laura is painted as a self-absorbed jerk to pretty much everyone she encounters, a person with no finesse or empathy. When you listen to her radio show you pick up on some of these things, but the mean and vindictive attitude was there long before she went on the radio.

Most disappointing about the subject is her continued lying, even in the present.She claims to use the 10 Commandments as her guide, yet the book's author does a great job pointing out where Dr. Laura has repeatedly lied about things in the past.She especially covers up for her sexual promiscuity and gives incorrect dates from her past to cover up the fact that she stole her husband from his first wife.This now makes sense--because on her show she has said that it can be okay to lie in certain circumstances.So her "morality" is based on her allowing herself to get away with her own sins.

And, of course, if anyone goes public with her sins, she accuses them of the sin of "gossip."

Though she stands for everything that is right, she can talk the talk but obviously doesn't walk the walk.This book is worth reading because of the well-documented footnotes that tell you where the author got the information and who she interviewed.And these aren't anonymous quotes--the names are attached.Many, many people repeat the sad story of the life of this woman who loves to tell others what to do but seems to struggle with her own self-esteem. It's truly a spiritual struggle and though she claims to have found the answers she obviously isn't close to resolving life's basic truths in her own life.

What Is Author Trying to Prove?
I think all the author wanted to do was to try and discredit Dr. Laura in the eyes of the public.I say "He who is without sin cast the first stone". Whatever Dr. Laura has done in her past, is that--and the good that she presently does far outweighs the past.People CAN have remorse too!!Give her a break!I ended up glossing over the last part as I got tired of the author bashing her which was what the whole book was about. Glad I didn't buy it but got from the library.

Nota nice person
As I was reading this book, I kept asking myself "Who is the worse woman: Laura Schlessinger or Martha Stewart?"I still haven't answered that question.

Laura had no close friends, had almost a non-existent relationship with her parents and siblings, and she had her mousey husband constantly stiff people.Although Laura proclaims she didn't work when she was raising her son, she in fact did work at radio stations in his very young years (1-3).


Dr. Laura is a very controlling person, but should be very grateful to people who assisted her in her career but isn't.She did everything she could to sabotage the career of another radio personality (person & station forgotten at the moment) when she was her co-worker.Laura wasn't very professional, as she was too chummy with her patients and used them for her own personal use.

Dr. Laura's female fans will no doubt dismiss the book and her critics and those who are neutral about her will probably enjoy the book.Similar to Martha Stewart in that Martha's fans thought that she got the shaft in her criminal sentence, and those who hated her or were neutral thought that she got off too easy.

Informative and Rather Entertaining Biography of a Sociopath
I enjoyed this book for giving the history of Dr. Laura which she of course never references while telling others that they are wrong for the mistakes they make. Dr. Laura made the same "mistakes" or were they "on-purposes"? Having her tubal ligation reversed in order to become pregnant by a married man was an extremely manipulative act. And it seems that Dr. Laura has remained manipulative, not to mention sadistic, to the present time. What she did to Dr. Barbara DeAngelis (having the nerve to claim that her psychology degree was bogus, when Dr. Laura's OWN degree is in physiology, NOT psychology) is downright bizarre, yet she got away with it. Her audiences must consist only of masochistic idiots who believe that they deserve to be called stupid by a woman who doesn't practice what she preaches. Scary that there are so many morons out there trusting in a woman pretending to be something she's not.

Fair, meticulous--needs an update
I've always been fascinated by people who move to California to "become" what they felt they couldn't back in their home town.Those who set out to reinvent themselves seldom fully succeed--and proof positive of this fact is Dr. Laura Schlessinger.Vickie L. Bane interviewed a great many people and carefully researched other press and anecdotal accounts of Schlessinger's rise to radio stardom.

The picture isn't pretty, and time after time, Dr. Laura's own life completely refutes the ideas that she presses forcefully on her callers to her radio programs, some of whom appear acutely masochistic, if not unrealistic to believe that they can "fix" what ails them in a three-minute phone chat, often laced with sarcasm, hostility or even abuse from Dr. Laura.

Dr. Laura doesn't believe in divorce, pre- or extramarital sex, or writing off one's family members, and yet she has done every one of those things: She became estranged from her father, mother, and younger sister.She dumped the nice Jewish orthodontist she married and never mentions.She engaged in an enthusiastic affair with Los Angeles radio legend Bill Ballance (who speaks very candidly with Bane), who helped her get into radio.Dr. Laura lured her current husband, Lew Bishop, away from his wife and three children, had her tubal ligation reversed in order to conceive out of wedlock.Eventually she and Bishop married and produced a child as goopily extolled (and, to my mind, as exploited) as Kathie Lee Gifford's kids Cody and Cassidy.Child of a Jewish father and Catholic mother, Dr. Laura converted to Orthodox Judaism, a choice that she uses as a bludgeon to people that she perceives as less "committed" to her brand of situational morality.

Bane neatly debunks Dr. Laura's "I'm My Kid's [Full-Time] Mom" shtick by documenting how and when Laura returned to work after her son's birth.As a child, Deryk ran wild in the hallways of KFI.For quite awhile, Dr. Laura used her visibility as a radio shrink as bait for prospective patients, one of whom details a disturbing breach of professional ethics, that of respecting strict boundaries of behavior between therapist and client.This former client was also a "friend" to Dr. Laura, and went shopping and lunching with her, as well as babysitting for Deryk.

This book, though complete as is, would benefit from an update with events that also reflect upon Dr. Laura's post-publication life--such as the failure of Dr. Laura's television show, her defection from Orthodox Judaism, and the fact that her mother, to whom Laura had not spoken for years, died alone in her apartment in Beverly Hills and wasn't found for days.

Isn't it funny-peculiar how right-leaning cheerleaders for their own definition of morality extend the statute of limitations on their own personal "youthful indiscretions" well into their forties?Schlessinger is no exception(...) ... Read more

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Title: Muzzling Dr. Laura.(conservative talk show host Laura Schlessinger)(Brief Article)
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Chapters: Roberto Refinetti, Laura Schlessinger, E. Morton Jellinek, Hans Baruch, David Nalin, Arthur Guyton, Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., Walter Bradford Cannon, Charles Brenton Huggins, Adelbert Ames, Jr., Jesse Francis Mcclendon, Donald S. Fredrickson, Paul D. Maclean, Ida Henrietta Hyde, Jacques Loeb, Carl W. Gottschalk, William Bosworth Castle, A. J. Carlson, Theodore Garland, Jr., Henry Pickering Bowditch, André Frédéric Cournand, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Kiki Sanford, William Francis Ganong, Jr., Irvine Page, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Edgar Allen, Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen, Edmund Jacobson, Joseph Erlanger, Raymond B. Huey, Stephen Kuffler, Charles Claude Guthrie, Nathaniel Kleitman, Sean Senechal, John Auer, Clay Armstrong, Helen Dean King, John Call Dalton, Homer Smith, Dale Schoeller, Abby Howe Turner, Barber and Calverley, Craig Heller, John Pappenheimer, Eugene Kennedy, Eugene Aserinsky, Ernest W. Retzlaff, Edwin B. Astwood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 181. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roberto Refinetti (; born November 19, 1957) is a behavioral physiologist, philosopher of science, and higher-education administrator. He is best known for his book Circadian Physiology. Roberto Refinetti was born in São Paulo, Brazil on November 19, 1957. After attending a selective Catholic school for primary and secondary education, he went to two universities simultaneously and earned a baccalaureate degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University and a baccalaureate degree in psychology from the University of São Paulo, both in 1981. He earned a master's degree in experimental psychology at the University of São Paulo two years later and then traveled to California, where he completed a doctoral program in psychology (with concentration in biopsychology) at the Univers...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23500843 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ani Difranco, Princess Superstar, Laura Schlessinger, Laura Nyro, Michael Bennett, Kate Hudson, Jon Favreau, Lea Michele, Nikki Reed, Michael Penn, Jason Schwartzman, Leah Remini, Marisa Berenson, Mikalah Gordon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her call-in radio program occasionally features short monologues on social and political topics, but is mostly made up of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice. Schlessinger's answers have been variously characterized as direct, wise, to-the-point, abrupt and cruel. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics." Previously, Schlessinger combined a local radio career with a private practice as a marriage and family counselor, but since going national she has concentrated her efforts on the daily syndicated The Dr. Laura Program, and on authoring self-help books. A television talk show was launched in 2000, but it was short-lived. The Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives, and The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands are among her bestselling works. Schlessinger was born in Brooklyn, New York to Monroe (Monty) Schlessinger, a civil engineer, and Yolanda Ceccovini Schlessinger, an Italian war bride. She grew up in Brooklyn, then on Long Island. She was an only child for eleven years until her sister, Cindy, was born. She has described her childhood environment as unloving and unpleasant and her family as dysfunctional, ascribing some of the difficulty to extended family rejection of her parents' mixed faith Jewish-Catholic marriage. While in her late 20's, Schlessinger separated from her first ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=277395 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eric Corley, Jef Raskin, Laura Schlessinger, Joe Nathan, List of State University of New York at Stony Brook People, Joy Behar, Howard Nusbaum, Joshua Prager, Steven K. Galson, Christine Goerke, Concetta M. Tomaino, Jane Delgado, Peter Bucknell, Sandy Pearlman, Rosina Bierbaum, Nick Mamatas, John L. Hennessy, Brosl Hasslacher, Diane Farr, Charles Allen Moser, Kieran Suckling, Mark Howell, Errol Cockfield, Jr., Robert Gallucci, Ashoke Sen, Michael F. Shlesinger, David Gelernter, Srinidhi Varadarajan, Majid Mohammadi, Alia Sabur, Hal Lieberman, Mriganka Sur, Daniel Corbett, Michael R. Anastasio, Michael Schudrich, Ralf Altmeyer, Kristina Curry Rogers, James Digiovanna, James Reese, Michael Stebbins, Fred B. Schneider, Peter Dobkin Hall, Joseph E. Ledoux, Steven Englebright, Susan R. Wessler, Robert S. Siegler, John Popielaski, Bonnie Schneider, Emanuel Neto, Perry Kivolowitz, Craig Tracy, Isabel Soveral, Jainendra K. Jain, Horaţiu Năstase, Abraham Silberschatz, Ney M. de Vasconcellos, Louis Cozolino, Kenneth Marra, Janice Radway, Jeffrey R. Shapiro, Susan Perlman, Kenneth Andrews, James S. Olson, Chris Adami, Rachel Begley, Geoffrey K. Martin, James Conte, Julia Heiman, Stuart Goldstein. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American talk radio host, socially conservative commentator and author. Her call-in radio program occasionally features short monologues on social and political topics, but is mostly made up of her responses to callers' requests for personal advice. Schlessinger's answers have been variously characterized as direct, wise, to-the-point, abrupt and cruel. Her website says that her show "preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values and ethics." Previously, Schlessinger combi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=277395 ... Read more

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Chapters: Elvis Presley, Bill Bixby, Chuck Norris, Laura Schlessinger, Chuck Liddell, Eric Bischoff, Bob Barker, Forest Whitaker, Taryn Manning, Frank Mir, Ray Lloyd, Shonie Carter, Wesley Snipes, Michael Landon, Shin Koyamada, Channing Tatum, Steven Ho, Jason David Frank, Patrick Smith, Cung Le, Seth Petruzelli, Benny Urquidez, Taylor Lautner, Kelly Hu, Jim Mather, Joe Lewis, Hector Echavarria, Lorenzo Lamas, Mark Dacascos, Justin Eilers, Sarah Shahi, Count Dante, Ernest Miller, Dan Inosanto, Noah Hathaway, Sean Patrick Flanery, Michelle Waterson, William Kwai Sun Chow, John Critzos Ii, William Zabka, Cynthia Rothrock, Gary Dourdan, Harold G. Long, Alex Roberts, Michael Jai White, Chris Casamassa, Vic Moore, Ron Van Clief, Sean Kanan, Billy Blanks, Bryce Papenbrook, Pat Ament, Bill Wallace, Martin Kove, Nicholas Raymond Cerio, Jeff Speakman, Rob Eastman, Bobby Lowe, Jim Kelly, Keith Hackney, Adriano Directo Emperado, Richard Kim, Richard Rabago, Vincent Cruz, Harold M. Mitchum, Thomas Ian Griffith, Mitchell Bobrow, Kathy Liebert, Howard Jackson, Matt Mullins, Robert Trias, Steve Cardenas, Ryan Pinkston, Kurt Mckinney, Blake Foster, Randall G. Hassell, Brad Hawkins, Jonathan Arons, Pat E. Johnson, Darnell Garcia, Aaron Norris, Alex Meraz, Otto Van Der Groen, Shaun Baker, John Mcsweeney, Craig Pumphrey, Joseph W. Walker, Tiger Schulmann, Leo Howard, Ron Duncan, John G. Barrett, James R. Webb, Ralph Johnson, Arthur Drago, Chuck Merriman, Duane Sammons, James Ibrao, Pat "Hawk" Hardy, Edan Gross, Roger Yuan, Toyotaro Miyazaki, Milt Calander, Allen Steen, Michael G. Foster, Neil Citron, John Linebarger, Joe Palanzo, Ron Marchini, Ridgely Abele, Tadashi Yamashita, Wayne Dalglish, Skipper Mullins, Charles Beeder, Ed Parker Jr., Elisa Au, Jay T. Will, Robert Bowles, Tony Schiena, Jeff Smith, Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, George Dillman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 623. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial members...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9288 ... Read more

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Title: Dr. Laura Attacks Public Schools For `Sick Indoctrination'.(Laura Schlessinger)(Brief Article)
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