Mountain girl : from barefoot to the boardroom
(Book)

"From the mountains of West Virginia to Julia Child's kitchen in Cambridge to the executive suite of her multi-million dollar company and marriage into America's most famous family, Marilyn Moss Rockefeller's life has been nothing if not an adventure. Born and raised in Appalachia to a family with white, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek blood in their veins, Rockefeller learned to shoot a rifle at six and never miss. She's been shooting straight ever since. Rockefeller's childhood reads like a sad country song, but all that heartbreak and pain only fueled the gumption of her young self and her determination to grab the world by the harness and ride. As a young adult and mother of two, Rockefeller met and married her first husband, Bill Moss, and co-founded the multi-million-dollar business Moss Tents in 1975. She served as the president and CEO until she sold the company in 2001, right around the time she found herself falling head-over-heels in love with the scion of two of America's most important families, Jim Rockefeller. Over the years her dynamic combination of guts, luck, charm, and intellect led her to galleries and libraries and meetings with heads of state, but also into pit stops and the Playboy Mansion (for a delivery!) and even the holding room of the FBI. In Mountain Girl, Rockefeller takes the reader on the ride of her life. She did it all, so we don't have to: appeared nude in an art film, smuggled a coin out of Pakistan, even crashed a plane and lived to tell about it. Famous people commingle with hillbillies in this moving recollection of a notorious and victorious life. Her memoir shows how a little spitfire and a lot of soul can take one person from barefoot in Appalachia to the boardrooms of industry without losing that special something or selling out. In her own words, she writes about her remarkable life-one that has been "well-lived, and a hoot to boot.""--