Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe

Anthony Summers

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The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes

'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will' Guardian

More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions - about her relations with President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world. Marilyn's tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact.

'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will' Guardian

'The fullest factual account of Monroe's life and death we're likely to get' Evening Standard'The definitive story of the legend' Irish Times'A remarkable performance...The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages' New York Times

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Praise for Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe

  • The fullest factual account of Monroe's life and death we're likely to get - Evening StandardConvincing evidence of a crude but effective cover-up which was designed to protect Robert Kennedy - Times Literary SupplementGets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will - GuardianThe most authoritative account ever written about the greatest sex symbol of them all - WomanA remarkable performance . . . The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages - New York Times

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Anthony Summers

Anthony Summers

Anthony Summers is the award-winning author of eight bestselling non-fiction books. As a BBC journalist, he covered events in the United States and wars in Vietnam and the Middle East for Panorama. His most recent book The Eleventh Day, co-authored with Robbyn Swan, was a Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. It also won the Crime Writer's Association's Gold Dagger award for best non-fiction - which the first edition of this book also won. Summers is the only author to have won two Gold Dagger awards for non-fiction.

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