The Resource America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt, John L. Williams
America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt, John L. Williams
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The item America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt, John L. Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- 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."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781623658236
- Label
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt
- Title
- America's mistress
- Title remainder
- the life and times of Eartha Kitt
- Statement of responsibility
- John L. Williams
- Language
- eng
- 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."--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, John
- Dewey number
- 782.42164092
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML420.K5
- LC item number
- W55 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kitt, Eartha
- African American women entertainers
- Women singers
- Singers
- Actresses
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt, John L. Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn868199630
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781623658236
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- Label
- America's mistress : the life and times of Eartha Kitt, John L. Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-302) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn868199630
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781623658236
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
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