Lois Banner: 2 books
Marilyn
The Passion and the Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognized-much less attempted to analyze-most...
Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the...