Scott Frankel

Happinesstells the stories of a dozen harried New Yorkers stuck in the morning rush hour on a stalled subway car where they are required by the spectral trainman to recall and reenact the happiest moment in their lives before they can continue their travels... and travails.Happinesscelebrates those fleeting moments in everyday lives - typically unanticipated largely overlooked always ephemeral - that upon reflection become people's fondest memories.

Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden defined beauty standards for the first half of the twentieth century. Brilliant innovators with humble roots both were masters of self-invention who sacrificed everything to become the country's first major female entrepreneurs. They were also fierce competitors whose fifty-year tug-of-war would give birth to an industry. From Fifth Avenue society to the halls of Congress their rivalry was relentless and legendary pushing both women to build international empires in a world dominated by men.