The Secret History of Wonder Woman Audiobook by Jill Lepore

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/64/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Secret History of Wonder Woman Author: Jill Lepore Narrator: Jill Lepore Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins Language: English Release date: 10-28-14 Publisher: Random House Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 482 votes Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the worlds most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating 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 in the history of the struggle for womens rights - a chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Editorial 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 possible to innovate - swagger, cleverness, tenacityare the same ones that can render a person hopelessly out of sync with the reigning strictures of the times." (Bookforum) Critic Reviews: "Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful place as an essential womens rights icon in this dynamically researched and interpreted, 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 its true: what she uncovers will shock you. Lets just say that Wonder Womans S&M subtext was there for a reason." (Flavorwire)