Bye-Bye, Miss America, Bye
We unearth the origin story of our nation's most beloved — and reviled — beauty pageant and try to predict its future. Is it time to sunset the whole thing? Our chaperones: Amy Argetsinger (author of “There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America”) and Kate Shindle (Miss America 1998).
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