Make It Nice: What the Real Housewives and Mr. Rogers Taught Me About Being a Woman

Fred Rogers and the Real Housewives walk into a bar.This is that book.Make It Nice is a sharp, funny, deeply researched argument that the Real Housewives franchise — twenty years, a dozen cities, hundreds of women — is one of the most complete cultural records of female experience available on television. Executive coach and lifelong Housewives viewer Erin Bestic uses the unlikely lens of Fred Rogers to examine what the franchise has actually been teaching us all along: about friendship, ambition, anger, love, grief, reinvention, and the radical act of wanting things out loud.From Teresa Giudice's table flip to Dorinda Medley's "I made it nice." From Bethenny Frankel's contract clause to the hot mic moments nobody was supposed to hear. From SHE by Shereé's fourteen-year promise to the vow renewal curse that has claimed more marriages than any reunion fight.Rogers said you are special, exactly as you are.The Housewives said: and don't you forget it.Make It Nice is for every woman who already knew both were right. Read more