Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time

New York: Doubleday, 1989. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound in brown with brown boards and red lettering on spine, headband, (xi) 321 pages plus 16 pages of b & w photos, no names, 2 small sticker pulls on ffep, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "In this stunning biography of Josephine Baker, Phyllis Rose brings us into the glitter of Paris in the '20s, through Europe transformed by the rise of Hitler, to the last thrity-five years of Baker's life when she became a civil rights activist & adopted twelve children from around the world, whom she called her 'Rainbow Tribe'." "Josephine Baker (or Joséphine Baker in francophone countries) (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American expatriate entertainer and actress. She became a French citizen in 1937. Most noted as a singer, Baker also was a celebrated dancer in her early career. She was given the nicknames the "Bronze Venus" or the "Black Pearl", as well as the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations. In France, she has always been known as "La Baker. Josephine Baker assisted the French Resistance by smuggling secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music during the Second World War and because of this, she became the first American-born woman to receive the highest French military honor, the Croix de Guerre. "Place Joséphine Baker" in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris was named in her honor. Contents include: Preface / Savage Dance / Black Broadway, Black Paris / Top Banana / Fresh Blood / Queen of the Colonies / Venus in Jeeps / The Family of Man / Overdressed Years / Staging Love / notes / Bibliography / index. Check out the scans. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".