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Book

Fearless and free : a memoir

Call Number

  • 921 B16786 (CEN, MBL, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Edition

First English-language edition.

Languages

Translated into English from the original French text.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, 2025.

Physical Description

xiv, 282 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

"Published in English for the first time, this is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker"--

Notes

"Tiny Reparations Books."

Contents

  • Introduction / Marcel Sauvage
  • From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the Seine
  • Paris news and views
  • First tour of the old and new worlds
  • A cinematic turn
  • An enormous appetite and soft skin
  • How I became a singer
  • From the stage to the gramophone
  • Four years of adventure
  • Secrets from the boudoir
  • A final word on the celebrities of the time
  • Afterword / Jean-Claude Bouillon-Baker.

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