Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart Baker Jean-ClaudePaperback
Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart Baker Jean-ClaudePaperback Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975)…
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Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart Baker Jean-ClaudePaperback
Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. Born into poverty in St.
Yet Josephine was also, as one critic put it, "a monster who made Joan Crawford look like the Virgin Mary." Jean-Claude Baker's book also reveals her outbursts that resulted in lasting feuds, her imperious treatment of family and entourage members, and her ambivalent attitudes concerning her ethnic background. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two popes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Reconciling Josephine's many personas-Jazz-age icon, national hero of France, proponent of Civil