I’d Do It Again! is a riveting memoir chronicling Harriet Wright’s extraordinary life. She embraced adventure, fame, and fortune only to discover that her most significant challenges lay hidden beneath the glamour.
Plucked by Jimmy Durante from the waters at the 1939–40 World’s Fair Aquacade to join the famed Copacabana chorus line, Harriet was thrust into the dazzling world of New York’s nightclub elite, regularly gracing the city’s most notorious gossip columns. She lived among the rich and famous, traveled across continents, and raised a son who would go on to revolutionize the fashion industry—but her life wasn’t all glitz and glamour.
The story takes readers through Harriet’s whirlwind romances in Tunisia, an unexpected stint in jail, and a six-week Caribbean escapade with José Ferrer, while also enduring the painful mystery of her husband’s tragic death in Ethiopia, a crash later revealed to be tied to military intelligence and government secrecy.
A tale of resilience, reinvention, and an unshakable spirit, I’d Do It Again! is a memoir filled with twists, triumphs, and secrets. It proves that a life well-lived isn’t measured by obstacles but by the determination to push forward, no matter the odds.
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