The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s 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. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. ![]() ![]() “Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history-fun.” - Entertainment Weekly ![]()
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