![]() ![]() ![]() Lepore thoroughly covers their colorful lives and every aspect of Wonder Woman’s persona and adventures, including Marston’s penchant for depicting the superhero bound in chains, then breaking triumphantly free. While Marston’s schemes led to precedent-setting court cases, he was living a daringly unconventional life with his wife, the diligent attorney Sadie Elizabeth Holloway his student-turned-lover, Olive Byrne, niece of the great birth-control advocate, Margaret Sanger and the children he had with each. The first historian granted access to Marston’s private papers, Lepore tells a true tale nearly as outlandish as the plots Marston concocted for Wonder Woman. In her latest compelling book of historical sleuthing and resurrection, Lepore ( Book of Ages, 2013) chronicles the creation and assesses the impact of Wonder Woman, “the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time.” The tiara-wearing amazon burst forth in 1941, the brainchild of Charles Moulton (pen name of William Moulton Marston), a controversial, Harvard-educated polymath and huckster who invented the lie-detector test and lived a life of deception. ![]()
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