false 182233 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 182233 5 1878260 1998 Marilyn Monroe total:199|5:45|4:68|3:64|2:18|1:4| 199 729 298 18 56409 3.70 418 54 54099734 2242279 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.67 189 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 1 false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Apr 27 02:24:43 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 02:27:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57332923 2354204 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon May 25 22:17:02 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 22:22:33 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 77552396 1856976 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 0 false Sun Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Nov 12 09:45:47 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 09:48:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42230888 82693 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 0 false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:56:03 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:57:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 67554228 1325209 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 15 19:26:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:43:45 -0700 2009 40351970 1812786 1763635 0517702606 9780517702604 1 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187895556m/1763635.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187895556s/1763635.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1763635.Marilyn_Monroe 3.83 6 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Wed Dec 17 19:42:30 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:42:30 -0800 2008 54024373 643332 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 2 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 11:52:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 09:44:31 -0700 2009 1 Graceann's "Marilyn Monroe" Review"

I go on at *great* length as to my problems with this biography. It is really the Arthur Miller story - it starts with their first meeting in 1951 and finishes with his staging of After the Fall in...more...]]> 71383951 2250713 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 00:37:21 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 00:38:21 -0700 2009 73318351 2802104 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 0 0 false Sat Oct 03 11:57:21 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 11:57:29 -0700 2009 63913277 746656 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 2 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 16:49:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 22:29:11 -0700 2009 57260429 2352255 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon May 25 10:52:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 14:47:14 -0700 2009 11919757 754640 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Mon Jan 07 17:26:14 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 17:27:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 7932948 97332 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 3 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 07:56:52 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 08:00:45 -0700 2007 39811744 1792627 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 2 0 false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 15:01:28 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 16:47:24 -0800 2008 31242532 1464421 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 12:08:54 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 12:40:30 -0700 2008 20472127 54487 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 0 false Fri Apr 18 11:16:08 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 10:37:11 -0700 2008 32544607 1516174 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 4 0 false Wed Sep 10 13:13:41 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 13:14:06 -0700 2008 1284615 88409 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 2 0 false Thu May 17 19:43:14 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:38:59 -0800 2009 81899355 3067046 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 1998 5 0 false Wed Dec 23 17:47:07 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 23 17:47:07 -0800 2009 81608663 3061740 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.66 199 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

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