James Bone (2)
Auteur van The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
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James Bone is the former New York bureau chief of The Times of London newspaper. For almost a quarter of the century, he covered every major event in New York: Whether it was a celebrity scandal or a mafia trial, a Wall Street fraud or a record art sale, a high society wedding or a terrorist toon meer attack, he was there. He comes from a family of generations of artists on both sides, some of whom were active at the same time as the sculptors and painters in this book. He has reported from dozens of countries and some non-countries, from Afghanistan to Antarctica. His most recent posting was as The Times correspondent in Rome, Italy. toon minder
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This book is a well-research biography about someone whose image is on a lot of popular landmarks around the country. It's a fascinating, frustrating, and ultimately sad account of a woman who enjoyed immense fame (for the times) and suffered because of it. The book discusses her career and many troubled relationships (with family, friends, boyfriends, and business associates) at length. Her proximity to many of the famous screen and theater names of the times is really interesting, and provides some insight into the inner workings of Broadway and Hollywood during the height of Munson's fame.
Munson suffers a pretty catastrophic fall from grace, but there are a number of things that triggered it, including what appears to be some kind of mental break. The author has clearly done a lot of research to figure out what may have caused Munson's mental health crisis, but we are still left wondering what exactly happened. It is not entirely clear that her problems were organic and not the result of the pressures of being a famous woman trying to find a suitable husband in a deeply judgmental environment with an overbearing and vehemently anti-Semitic mother. I found this to be one area where the book fell a bit short; I thought the author could've provided more context about the state of women's rights, their roles in society, and tabloid journalism. He touched on this a little bit, but I think he could've discussed it more while not straying too far from the main topic.
Overall, though, it is a great book about a woman I'd never heard of before. I highly recommend this book.… (meer)