Chris Chase Jean-Claude Baker Josephine Baker (Paperback)

Further Details Title: Josephine Baker Condition: New Subtitle: The Hungry Heart Author: Chris Chase, Jean-Claude Baker Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0815411723 EAN: 9780815411727 ISBN: 9780815411727 Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Music Dance & Theatre, Social Sciences, Biography Release Date: 30/07/2001 Release Year: 2001 Description: Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yet Josephine was also, as one critic put it, "a monster who made Joan Crawford look like the Virgin Mary." Jean-Claude Baker's book also reveals her outbursts that resulted in lasting feuds, her imperious treatment of family and entourage members, and her ambivalent attitudes concerning her ethnic background. Reconciling Josephine's many personas—Jazz-age icon, national hero of France, proponent of Civil Rights, mother of children from across the globe—Josephine: The Hungry Heart gives readers the inside story on a star unlike any other before or since. Number of Pages: 592 Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 231mm Item Length: 155mm Item Width: 32mm Item Weight: 794g Language: English Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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