The Secret History of Wonder Woman View By Jill Lepore
| Title | : | The Secret History of Wonder Woman |
| Author | : | Jill Lepore |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 297 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0385354045 |
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story and a crucial history of twentieth century feminismWonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story and a crucial history of twentieth century feminismWonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity Unlike every other superhero, she has also has a secret history.Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never before seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman s creator Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth he invented the lie detector test lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women s rights a chain of events that begins with the women s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later
about Author
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard s History and Literature Program She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker Winner of the Anisfield Wolf Award for the best non fiction book on race, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The Name of War Knopf, 1998 , winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson P Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and chair of Harvard s History and Literature Program She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker Winner of the Anisfield Wolf Award for the best non fiction book on race, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The Name of War Knopf, 1998 , winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, and the Berkshire Prize and a finalist for the J Anthony Lukas Award A co founder of the magazine Common place, Lepore s essays and reviews have also appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, American Scholar, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Daily Beast, the Journal of American History and American Quarterly Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, the Charles Warren Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation She has served as a consultant for the National Park Service and currently serves on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery and the Society of American Historians.Jill lives in Cambridge,Massachusetts 
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A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family s
297 pagesJill Lepore
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