Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
Jul 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
4.3star
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528
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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 of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her sexual abuse, her multiple marriages, her affairs, and her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Marilyn is, at last, the nuanced biography Monroe fans have been waiting for.
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4.3
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MasterWhoDawn Knows
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September 30, 2017
Skip the intro. It is mostly about the author and how she feels unique, insightful and "just like!" Marilyn she is. It made the rest of the book read like a conversation with that unsufferable co-worker who makes up stories to one up you. Ruined the entire thing.
A Google user
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August 17, 2012
I have never felt such a connection with a book like I do now since Marylin reminds me of myself. I just wish that in the beginning instead of the focus on the grandmother and the mother of marylin it should be more on marylin herself.
deborah elliott
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July 11, 2021
The assumptions are questionable. What proof is there that Marilyn Monroe was bipolar?
About the author
Lois Banner is a founder of the field of women's history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2005 she won the ASA's Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and most recently MM-Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn Monroe's personal archive. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at USC and lives in Southern California.
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