A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy
Rose Lee was the first--and the only--stripper to become a
household name, write novels, and win the adulation of
intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her
outrageous blend of funny-smart sex symbol with the aura of high
culture--she boasted that she liked to read Great Books and listen
to classical music while taking off her clothes on-stage--inspired
a musical, memoirs, a portrait by Max Ernst, and a species of rose.
"Gypsy" is the first book about Gypsy Rose Lee's life, fame, and
place in America not written by a family member, and it reveals her
deep impact on the social and cultural transformations taking shape
during her life.
Rachel Shteir, author of the prize-winning "Striptease," gives
us Gypsy's story from her arrival in New York in 1931 to her
sojourns in Hollywood, her friendships and rivalries with writers
and artists, the Sondheim musical, family memoirs that retold her
history in divergent ways, and a television biopic currently in the
making. With verve, audacity, and native guile, Gypsy Rose Lee
moved striptease from the margins of American life to Broadway,
Hollywood, and Main Street. "Gypsy" tells how she did it, and
why.
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