Book Review: The Secret History of Wonder Woman


The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By Jill Lepore

Alfred A. Knopf

If Wonder Woman‘s status as a feminist icon was ever in question, Jill Lepore’s deeply researched tribute puts that to rest. Lepore, a New Yorker staffer and Harvard historian, delivers a trove of private documents belonging to the character’s creator, William Moulton Marston. Her discoveries shed light not just on Marston’s notable life—Harvard scholar, failed lawyer, co-inventor of the polygraph—but on the rich history of women’s rights and how it plays out in his colorful panels.

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