But he never wore a glittery crown, had the pageant wave down, or wore funky shoes. Miss America, Atlantic City s own prodigal daughter, is coming home after a six-year fling in Las Vegas. And the ...

Beauty pageants have haunted Hilary Levey Friedman since childhood. “I can’t remember ever not knowing what a beauty pageant was,” the Brown University sociologist writes in the opening pages of “Here ...