American Legends: The Life of Mary Tyler Moore

*Includes pictures*Includes Moore's own quotes about her life and career*Includes a bibliography for further reading “My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, ‘this child will either end up on stage or in jail." Fortunately, I took the easy route.’” – Mary Tyler Moore “I’m Mary Tyler Moore and I am…an actress, an animal lover, the chairman of the Juvenile diabetes Research Foundation, the wife of Dr. Robert Levine…Suffice it to say there are a lot of ways to end that sentence, and I don’t think I’ve come close to living through all the possibilities, thank heavens. But what I do know is that in every role I am a devotee of laughter and tears, committed to expressing the nuances of each.” – Mary Tyler Moore A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed