Beschreibung
It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the death of a minor American actress named Marilyn Monroe. There is no reason for her to be part of my consciousness as I walk down a midtown New York street filled with color and action and life,” writes Gloria Steinem, in her perceptive, sensitive, and provocative text.
A quarter of a century after her death, why is Marilyn Monroe still better known than most living movie stars? Even most chiefs of state?
Why has her legend grown even more powerful in die past decade? What is it about that legend that compels our imaginations to carry it on?
Why is she the subject of our rescue fantasies? Did she represent the hopes of men, and the fears of women?
Why is her death the subject of more interest than her life?
Were the events surrounding her death a cover-up without a crime?
Most important, who was the real woman inside Marilyn Monroe?
These questions are answered with research, insight, and a hardheaded empathy by Gloria Steinem’s text, and by the vulnerable Marilyn herself, who was photographed and interviewed by George Barris just before she died. Those photographs have not been published and that insight has not been available until now. It’s taken all die years since Marilyn’s deadi and die more than forty books of research on her complex, deceptive, poignant life to bring the facts to light.