Immensely gifted with intelligence, curiosity,  sensitivity, warmth, and a profound openness to  people and places outside her own experience, Shirley  MacLaine beings a very special quality of mind and  heart to her acting, to her writing, to her  travels. You Can Get There From Here   is a remarkable memoir--the exciting and revealing  journey of a woman who rediscovers the world an  herself.

From an ill-fated  television series in the early 1970's that goes  against everything she believes in...to her  impassioned efforts on behalf of a major presidential  candidate...to her emergence as an important voice in  the international women's movement...to her  life-affirming odyssey to the People's Republic of  China--this is the unforgettable story of Shirley  MacLaine's road from a crisis of self-doubt to a joyous  new stage in her life.