Goddess: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe - Softcover

Summers, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451407474 ISBN 13: 9780451407474

Publisher: Onyx, 1996

Synopsis

Based on interviews, correspondence, and previously unreleased documents, this biography recounts the movie star's life and loves, both public and private, and attempts to clarify the circumstances surrounding her death

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Summers is the author of the bestselling biographies Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover.

From Library Journal:

Summers claims to have interviewed more than 600 people in the course of writing this book, and the effort shows in this exhaustiveand exhausting biography. Overall, the book is well written. Of the new material presented, the most provocative is Summers's assertion that Monroe's corpse was first discovered by Robert Kennedy and Peter Lawford. The reason for the confusion of facts about her death, says Summers, is that a coverup was conducted to hide Monroe's sexual involvement with both John and Robert Kennedy. Since Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller declined to be interviewed, this is not the definitive Monroe biography. Still, libraries that do not already have a surfeit of books on Monroe should find this a popular addition. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured alternates. John Smothers, Monmouth Cty. Lib., Freehold, N.J.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Onyx
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0451407474
• ISBN 13: 9780451407474
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 544