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Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road With Gypsy Rose Lee

by Erik Lee Preminger

Published: 1984-10-01

Hardcover: 277 pages

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The son of the famous and eccentric ecdysiast recalls his life with his mother and her sometimes outrageous struggle to survive and to maintain her style of life, her menagerie of pets, and her teen-aged son

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Lady of Burlesque: The Career of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Robert Strom

Published: 2011-03-07

Paperback: 243 pages

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A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louise Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal education, and a mentally ill stage mother who criticized and demeaned her daughter. Despite these hurdles, Gypsy...

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Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Noralee Frankel

Published: 2009-05-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections."Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized G...

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Barefoot to the Chin - The Fantastic Life of Sally Rand

by Jim Lowe

Published: 2018

Hardcover: 820 pages

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"In addition to being a very detailed biography of its subject, it is simultaneously a wonderfully readable history of the era's popular culture." - John Greenya, Washington Times. This definitive biography, which includes 100 pictures, is based on exclusive access to Sally's voluminous filing cabinets...

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Reflections of My Life-April March: The First Lady of Burlesque

by April March

Published: 2016-08-17

Paperback: 284 pages

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Imagine being a burlesque star while still a teenager, being married eight times and being pursued by some of the biggest names in show business and the King of Saudi Arabia, being involved in a mass shooting and fleeing Chicago to escape a Mafia boss. Now imagine this same person going ba...

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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Thorndike Press Large Print Core)

by Stuart Turton

Published: 2018-10-03

Library Binding: 667 pages

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Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind

by A W Stencell

Published: 1999-08-01

Paperback: 200 pages

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Girls! Girls! Girls! The carnivals, the girls, and the scams — a journey back through time to the glory years of traveling adult entertainment. Many of these photos have never been seen before, and no one has published a book exclusively devoted to the women (and men) who performed in Gi...

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Forbidden City, USA

by Arthur Dong

Published: 2015-09-28

Hardcover: 216 pages

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WINNER of the 2015 American Book Award, now in a luxurious HARDCOVER edition! FORBIDDEN CITY, USA captures the magic and glamour of a Chinese American nightclub scene that peaked in San Francisco during World War II. Meet the "Chinese Sinatra," the "Chinese Ginger Rogers," the "Chinese Fred Astaire"...

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Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman

by Miki Agrawal

Published: 2019-01-29

Hardcover: 296 pages

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From the co-founder of THINX and hellotushy.com, start-ups collectively valued at more than $150 million, comes DISRUPT-HER, a rallying cry for women to radically question the status quo.Miki Agrawal has faced patriarchal pushback, fought girl-on-girl hate, ridden the roller coaster of bui...

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Go Set a Watchman Teaching Guide: Teaching Guide and Sample Chapters

by Harper Lee, Amy Jurskis

Published: 2017-10-24

Kindle Edition: 75 pages

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Written in the 1950s but unpublished until recently, Go Set a Watchman is neither a prequel nor a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, and attempting to read it as a simple continuation of the story does not do the work justice. As the adult Jean Louise, "Scout," returns to Macomb to visit�...