E. Jean Carroll is a journalist and the author of five books, including What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal, and Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. Carroll’s Ask E. Jean column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019, becoming one of the longest-running advice columns in American publishing. She has written for Rolling Stone, Outside, Vanity Fair, Esquire, New York, and The Atlantic. In 2024 Carroll was named one of Time Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World. She lives and throws the ball for her dogs at her cabin in the mountains in upstate New York.
She beat him!” –People shouting in a coffee shop in Greenwich Village.
A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation
You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob?
Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box.
You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with” ―a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. Jean’s “psychiatric evaluations,” and hear how she tries to cheer up Trump’s gloomy, $750-an-hour shrink by telling him about the strange white tablet Hunter S. Thompson gave her.
You will be in on the choosing of the “clothes for court,” and the creation of “the look”: a look that will help the jury connect the younger E. Jean who is attacked by Trump in Bergdorf’s with the older E. Jean who sits in the courtroom.
It’s all here: two dazzling trials, the full-tilt high stakes, the laugh-out-loud commentary, and the inspiring fact that a woman is never too old to get even.
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