I am old enough to vividly remember the media exposure surrounding Renee Richards so I was very eager to read her book.  I was not disappointed in the least because Renee is extremely honest and frank about her life more so even than Christine Jorgensen.  For example, unlike Christine Renee freely discusses her sex life including a homosexual experience she had while she was still trying to find herself.  What I found most fascinating about Renee's story is the level of uncertainty and reluctance to accept herself as a transsexual that she felt.  She once went as far as traveling all the way to Casablanca just to turn around just as she reached the hospital we she had arranged for the gender reassignment surgery.  After that incident she went back to trying to live as a man by going off hormones, having breast reduction surgery, getting married and fathering a child.  Ultimately of course she did decide to go through with it and live her life as a woman.  In a very recent interview she stated that she wishes she could have found some other way to deal with her gender confusion,  so even today she still is unsure of her choice.  Also of historical interest in the book is her time as a patient of  one of transgendered medicine's pioneers Dr. Harry Benjamin