Download or read book Expensive Habits written by Maureen Howard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's rise to fame and fortune from humble beginnings, and the price she pays for both. Recent American social and political history is illuminated in an account of the life of writer Maggie Flood, whose two marriages and career launched her into the rarefied worlds of politics, the arts, and popular culture.