| Title |
Fearless and free : : a memoir
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| Names |
Baker, Josephine.
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Oluo, Ijeoma.
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Zafar, Anam. Translator
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Sauvage, Marcel. Editor
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Bouillon-Baker, Jean-Claude.
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Lewis, Sophie R. Translator
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| Book Number |
DB127017
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| Title Status |
In Process
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| Language |
English
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| Annotation |
"Josephine Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored her: 'I swear in all my life I have never seen, and probably never shall see again, such a spectacular singer and performer.' It was told she strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah who wore a diamond collar. Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance, her celebrity working as her cover. She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for military service. After the war she became increasingly interested in civil rights. In 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl born in Missouri to a poor single black woman and a white father she did not know. Flirtatious, funny, candid and this memoir gives us the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker telling her own story. Formed from a series of conversations with the French journalist Marcel Sauvage, over a period of more than twenty years, this book offers an entertaining insight into one of the most interesting and beguiling figures of the twentieth century."-- Goodreads.
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Local Subject |
Unrated - UNRAT
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Biography - BIO
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Sports, Recreation, Hobbies, Movies, etc - 790
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Women's Interest - WOM
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Music & Musicians - 780
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Stage & Screen - STG
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Performing arts - Stage presentations - 792
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| LC Subject |
Autobiographies
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African American women dancers - France
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African American women singers - 20th century - Biography
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Actresses, Black - France - Biography
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African American entertainers - France
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Women spies - France - Biography
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African American women civil rights workers - Biography
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Nonfiction
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| Call Number |
792.8092 ANF
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| Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress,
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| Original Publication |
Reissue of: New York : Penguin Random House, 2025. 9798217019953
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