Author's note
Prologue
"Somewhere out there is what you want to do"
"It's like a performance of femininity" : becoming Miss America : October 2018
"Something electric in the room" : 1980
"They can exploit me any day" : 1970s
"Until there is nothing more to win" : becoming Miss America : January 2019
"It couldn't just be a beauty contest" : 1921
"Miss New York is going to win" : 1983
"You cannot let down for a second." : becoming Miss America : June 2019
"Do you think I'm the first woman to have an interest?" : 1991
"I wanted to be a little out of the box : becoming Miss America : November 2019
"Everyone wanted something from me that I couldn't give them." : 2007
"You don't leverage the godfather" : 2017
"That title isn't going to win everything" : 2018
"There she is ..." : becoming Miss America : December 2019
Epilogue.