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Easton Studio Press
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
Featuring: Sophie Tucker
ISBN: 1632260069
EAN: 9781632260062
Kindle: B00OFK232O
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Fiction | Historical
Features more than 90 beautiful color and 120 black and
white period illustrations. Part fairy tale, part crime novel, part rags to riches
Hollywood myth, I Am Sophie Tucker tells the outrageous
story of one of showbiz’s biggest personalities. From 1906 through the beginning of television, Sophie Tucker
and her bawdy, brash, and risqué songs paved the way for
performers such as West, Monroe, Midler, Cher, Madonna, and
Gaga. “Sophie was like the Forrest Gump of the first half of the
1900s,” says co-author Susan Ecker. “She was close friends
with seven presidents, King George VI, young Queen
Elizabeth, Chaplin, J. Edgar, Capone, Garland, Jerry Lewis,
Sinatra and every other notable of her era.” Tucker tried to get her story published for nine years,
without success. Undaunted, Sophie hired half a dozen
ghostwriters, but she still had no takers for her no holds
barred autobiography. Eventually, Doubleday published a
sanitized version in 1945. “After immersing ourselves in Sophie’s papers and surviving
friends,” says co-author Lloyd Ecker, “this initial volume
is what should have been the actual autobiography of Tucker.” Though she obsessively documented her life, Sophie loved to
exaggerate for dramatic effect. Over the years, she told
multiple versions of each important event. At the end, not
even Sophie knew the difference between truth and tall tale. “This volume is 85% fact,” Lloyd explains. “The other 15% -
who knows?” I Am Sophie Tucker puts back all of the delicious bits nixed
by Doubleday’s lawyers and throws in other Tucker show
business dirt, intrigue, arrests, romance, murder,
gangsters, and scandals. Now you can read it for yourself.
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