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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMarina Whitman may be the daughter of a Martian but she is an exemplar of the best of America. In the academic world, in public service, in high corporate positions, she pushed the frontiers of female participation and did so by unambiguously demonstrating both competence and character. The book is a fascinating saga of an exceptionally talented family, initially focused on a mathematic genius but ultimately growing in diversity and influence. - Paul Volcker, formerly Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
""How did a young Hungarian immigrant and his daughter both become leading advisors to Presidents of the United States? This richly detailed memoir not only illuminates Marina von Neumann Whitman's ground-breaking life, but sheds long-awaited new light on her father, bringing us as close as we may ever get to the autobiography that John von Neumann never had the chance to write."" - George Dyson, author of
Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and
Turing's Cathedral""A fast-paced, readable, and deeply educational account of how the daughter of a genius made her own brilliant way as a heavily involved top economist and an equally involved wife and mother."" - George P. Shultz, The Hoover Institution, formerly U.S. Secretary of State (1982-1989)
