Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time

by Phyllis Rose

Hardcover, 1989

Status

Available

Genres

Publication

Doubleday (1989), Edition: 1st, 321 pages

Description

Traces Baker's life, featuring her struggles in Europe, her undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, her tours around the world, and her adopted home.

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Rating

½ (13 ratings; 3.8)

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a hard to get into book but worth the struggle.

Subjects

African American entertainers France Biography

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975

Dancers France Biography

France Race relations

United States Race relations

Language

English

Original language