Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame and private misery, her death a tragedy surrounded by mysteries. Drawing on first-hand interviews Anthony Summers offers both a classic biography and a shockingly revealing account of the...
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She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame and private misery, her death a tragedy surrounded by mysteries. Drawing on first-hand interviews Anthony Summers offers both a classic biography and a shockingly revealing account of the screen goddess's relations with John and Robert Kennedy. 'The definitive story of the legend ...more convincing at every page - told with all the coldness of truth and the authority of the historian, but at the end of it we still love Marilyn' Maeve Binchy, Irish Times
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780026154604 (0026154609)
Publish date: September 1st 1985
Publisher: Macmillan
Pages no: 415
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
20th Century,
Culture,
Film,
Religion,
Politics,
Biography Memoir,
Goddess
I picked up an earlier edition of this book in college but never finished. Recently, it's been updated and made cheap on Kindle, and as I've read numerous Monroe books since it became an auto-buy.How to review it, though? The author claims extensive and detailed research, but you find some of his so...