When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

In When Women Ran Fifth Avenue, award-winning journalist Julie

Satow  chronicles the rise of the department store through dazzling portraits  of three visionary women who took great risks and forged new paths. This  stylish account, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures  the department store in all its glitz and decadence, and showcases the  women who made that curated world

go round.

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Plaza, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and NPR Favorite Book of 2019. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times.