Goddess the Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Author:Anthony Summers
Publisher:ONYX JE14
Year: 1986 Print: 1 Cover Price: $4.95
Condition:Very Good. Light wear. Spine crease
Genre: Non Fiction/Biography
Pages: 525
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Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from Joe DiMaggio to Arthur Miller to John F.Kennedy. But her tragic death at a young age, under suspicious circumstances, left behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.

Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people, laying bare the truthssometimes funny, often sadabout this brilliant, troubled woman. The first to gain access to the files of Monroes last psychiatrist, Summers uses the documents to explain her tangled psyche and her dangerous addiction to medications. He establishes, after years of mere rumor, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both intimately involved with Monroe in lifeand in covering up the circumstances of her death.

Written and updated by a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has authored works on JFK, J.Edgar Hoover, and the 9/11 attacks, this investigation of an iconic stars brief life and early death is remarkable…. The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages (The New York Times). NetflixsThe Mystery of Marilyn Monroewill cement this work as the definitive biography of the unforgettable woman.