America's Mistress
Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times
Sinopsis
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, the most exciting woman in the world. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and admirers, and was almost able to forget she had once been a poor black girl from the Deep South.
But her new persona was also a prison from which she found it impossible to escape. John L. Williams moving and unsettling biography shows a star adrift in a bewildering new America torn apart by the Civil Rights movement. Shunned by many of her former friends, shocked by her countrys insiduous racism, and with a perilously fragile sense of her own identity, Eartha Kitt would pay the price that came from trying to be Americas mistress.
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Editorial: Quercus
ISBN: 9781780875576
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 29/08/2013
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