With revelatory new information, from a leading feminist scholar and biographer, a nuanced and sympathetic biography of Marilyn Monroe
Lois Banner is a founder of the field of women's history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2006 she won the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM--Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn Monroe's personal archive. In addition to her books on Monroe, Banner is a major collector of her artefacts. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at USC and lives in Southern California.
Here, finally, is a book that does not sensationalise her erratic
and exotic life, but reveals her as the damaged, childlike and lost
feminist she was ... An excellent book ... A detailed narrative
that does not scream with hyperbole, or moan with lust. It is much
sadder than that ... It is fascinating
*Daily Telegraph*
Banner presents a rich and often imaginative narrative of Marilyn's
life. By the end, Monroe feels at once like an earthly being - an
almost-friend - and an enigma, still slightly out of focus and just
beyond reach. That seems right
*New York Times Book Review*
Exciting to read; Banner's admiration of, and belief in, her
subject really animate the text
*Financial Times*
Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who
worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to
screen goddess
*Sunday Telegraph ‘Book of the Week'*
Offering a new interpretation of the star's life which draws on
feminism and the history of gender ... Banner's book provides the
most detailed account yet of Marilyn's fractured childhood
*Independent ‘Book of the Week’*
Rigorously researched and scholarly
*Daily Express*
A dazzling portrait of a fragile but remarkably ambitious and
determined personality, as spiritual as she was corporeal, as canny
as she was careless
*Elle*
Offers a new perspective on her story. Drawing on new material from
her diaries and private papers, it's a revelatory and intelligent
tribute
*Good Housekeeping*
Banner elegantly and skillfully chronicles Monroe's short life ...
[she] paints a portrait of Monroe as a complicated, many-faceted
woman
*Publishers Weekly*
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