Patricia Beard

Patricia Beard is Editor at Large for Elle, a contributing writer to Town & Country and Mirabella, and her articles have appeared in many other national magazines. She is the author of Growing Up Republican, a biography of Christine Todd Whitman, the first woman governor of New Jersey.

Books
	Good Daughters: Loving Our Mothers as They Age Why is it so difficult to be a good daughter to an aging mother now? Partly it is hard because of the changes in the culture that our generation has made. As Victoria Secunda writes in When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends, Women who today are in