JLSH0-8 Jill Lepore - The Secret History of Wonder Woman.nfo
General Information
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Title: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Author: Jill Lepore
Read By: Jill Lepore
Copyright: 2014
Audiobook Copyright: 2014
Genre: Nonfiction - History
Publisher: Random House Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Source: Overdrive MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 8
Total Duration: 9:05:11
Total MP3 Size: 249.81
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Audible Editor Reviews
"The story of William Moulton Marston, the Harvard-trained psychologist,
inventor of the first lie-detector test, and creator of Wonder Woman
for DC Comics, is at once inspiring and disheartening. His unlikely
career shows us (among other things) that the qualities that make it
that can render a person hopelessly out of sync with the reigning strictures
of the times." (Bookforum)
Publisher's Summary
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of
family story - and a crucial history of 20th-century feminism.
Wonder 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 20th 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
that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and
ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.
What the Critics Say
"Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful place as an essential
spectacularly illustrated, downright astounding work of discovery that
injects new zest into the history of feminism." (Booklist)
"Wonder Woman, feminist hero, was the creation of a husband and wife
who led, on the surface, average existences. Behind the mask, however,
they had extraordinarily unconventional lives. It takes Harvard professor
and New Yorker writer Lepore to dig into the complicated story behind
the lasso (of truth), and forgive me for sounding like Upworthy, but
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