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The Private Life of a Public Woman
Houghton Mifflin
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
608 pages
ISBN: 0547152574
EAN: 9780547152578
Kindle: B005G5PPLS
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Non-Fiction Biography
Bosworth goes behind the image of an American superwoman,
revealing Fonda—more powerful and vulnerable than ever
expected—whose struggles for high achievement, love, and
successful motherhood mirror the conflicts of a generation
of women.
As actress, activist, businesswoman, wife, and mother, Jane
Fonda has pushed herself to the limit, attempting to please
all, excel in every arena, be everything. We’ve read her
version of her controversial life, yet nothing can prepare
us for this genuinely revelatory account of Jane’s
engrossing, sometimes shocking journey.
Supplemented by the psychiatric records of her suicidal,
bipolar mother, Fonda’s FBI file, and interviews with her
intimates, this perceptive portrait strips away hype and the
subject’s own mythmaking. Patricia Bosworth shows us what a
toll Jane’s quest to excel (and please her demanding father,
Henry) exacted and sheds light on truths she’s glossed over:
her rejection of her mother before her suicide; the death
threats and self-doubts of her antiwar crusade; her second
husband Tom Hayden’s habit of putting her down while
spending her fortune; the emotional downfall that led her to
stop acting and marry Ted Turner.
Lee Strasberg once said that Jane had "panic in her eyes,"
and it is this wounded but so familiar woman—human yet still
heroic, the embodiment of a generation’s conflicts and
triumphs—whom Bosworth captures so utterly and definitively.
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