![]() ![]() The Secret History spends surprisingly little time documenting Wonder Woman's career in comics, but only because Lepore's interest is in all the details that added up to the character's creation. ![]() He appears here under many guises: staunch self-proclaimed feminist, tireless huckster promoting the lie detector of his own invention, domineering but loving polygamist family man, a bit of a creep. While Marston's predilection for bondage can be seen by anyone perusing a Golden Age Wonder Woman comic (hardly an issue fails to include the use of chains or other bindings), it's Lepore's astoundingly thorough research that illuminates Marston's pre-comics career and carefully concealed private life. A book about Wonder Woman's origins can't help but be about the man who created her, William Moulton Marston, and a book about Marston can't help but be a bit scandalous. Lepore, a Harvard professor and staff writer for The New Yorker, reveals a lot more than catchphrases here, however. Suffering Sappho! Athena's Shield! Not Ron Burgundy's exclamations these, but curses approved for use in Wonder Woman comics as revealed in The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore's study of America's favorite Amazon. ![]() ![]() The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore Knopf, 432pp., $29.95 ![]()
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