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America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt
- Title
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt / John L. Williams.
- Author
- Williams, John, 1961-
- Publication
- London : Quercus, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 13-1093 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JNE 17-4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Description
- xv, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and admirers, and was almost able to forget she had once been a poor black girl from the Deep South. But her new persona was also a prison from which she found it impossible to escape. John L. Williams' moving and unsettling biography shows a star adrift in a bewildering new America torn apart by the Civil Rights movement. Shunned by many of her former friends, shocked by her country's insiduous racism, and with a perilously fragile sense of her own identity, Eartha Kitt would pay the price that came from trying to be America's mistress.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JNE 17-4
- ISBN
- 9780857385758 (hardback)
- 0857385755 (hardback)
- 9780857385765 (paperback)
- 0857385763 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 861725474
- 861725474
- Author
- Williams, John, 1961- author.
- Title
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt / John L. Williams.
- Publisher
- London : Quercus, [2013]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JNE 17-4Sc E 13-1093