In Life So Far, Friedan takes us on an intimate journey throughout her own life, from her lonely childhood to the founding of Now, and her brilliant, contentious, and brave leadership of the movement. Friedan chronicles the secret underground of women in Washington in the early sixties who drafted her to spearhead an "NAACP" for women, and the daring of many who spoke out against discrimination for the first time. She recounts the political infighting and dirty tricks within the movement, and the forces that tried to destroy it, and how hard she fought to keep the movement practical and free of extremism, including "man hating". Friedan is frank about her twenty-two-year marriage to an advertising entrepreneur, which deteriorated into physical abuse. Forthright, full of stories and larger-than-life characters, it is the scope of Friedan's vision and achievements that make her memoir so important and compelling. In Life So Far, an account only she could have written, Friedan spares neither herself nor anyone else.