Ashton Applewhite from this chair rocks book Watch Video
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Description: Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. While you might know Ashton as an ageism activist, you might not know that she first became a New York Times best-selling author with her book Truly Tasteless Jokes under the pseudonym Blanche Knott. nnHer 1997 book on divorced women—Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well—led her to join the Board of the Council on Contemporary Families, and it also made her a named enemy of Phyllis Schlafly