Josephine : the hungry heart

9780679409151
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First edition

xxiii, 532 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

"She is like Salome, she has seven veils"
Paris, October 1928: All hell breaks loose : "She had no shame in from of those crackers"
Terror before the opening : "Josephine, don't you jump out that window!"
Elvira, Carrie, the beginnings : "Grandma often talked about slave days"
Childhood in St. Louis : "There are no bastards in my family!"
Race riots, and Tumpy leaves town : "Oh God, why didn't you make us all one color?"
Josephine marries at thirteen : "She cut his head open with a beer bottle"
Life on the T.O.B.A. circuit : "It was going from one dinky theater to another"
Josephine tries marriage for the second time : "She was a little snip, about fifteen years old"
On the road with Shuffle Along : "Some of those girls treated Joe like a dog"
You can go home again, if you don't stay there : "My mother, poor woman, I was ashamed of her"
In Bamville, or The Chocolate Dandies : "She'd be laughing, to her the work was joy"
Summer of '25: heat and Harlem nights : "She was hanging over Seventh Avenue, stark naked"
Mrs. Reagan comes to Harlem : "I got off at Lenox Avenue ... I was happy"
A shipboard romance, and Hello, Paris : "Men and women kissing in the streets!"
Josephine checks out poets, painters, waiters : "I wanted to seduce the whole capital"
The good times roll : "We need tits"
Josephine betrays a friend : "She had flown, she had been stolen from me"
The Folies-Bergè: everyone goes bananas : "I was manicured, pedicured...."
Enter Pepito : "He used to beat the hell out of her"
Condemned by church and state : "They denounced me as the black devil!"
Sex and the (sort of) married woman : "She saw him with his pants off, we didn't"
A star of the Ziegfeld Follies : "I don't want to be refused in a hotel"
Bad times in Harlem : "She insisted on speaking only French"
Trashed by critics, envied by peers : "My God, how does it feel to be a big star?"
Another husband, more lovers, and sex, sex, sex : "She knew I was gay but she had to possess you"
Josephine goes to war : "I am ready to give the Parisians my life"
Arabian nights : "As a mistriss, she wanted the whole treatment"
Rediscovering her race : "My people, my people, I have abandoned them!"
Josephine, heroine of the resistance : "That German cow in my blue satin sheets!"
Josephine dumps a millionaire for a bandleader : "I can't marry Claude, he's much too jealous"
Breaking the color bar in Miami : "She wanted to go down in history, like Lincoln"
The fued with Walter Winchell : "She broke my heart, I am a finished man"
A career collapses, a universal mother is born : "I want to adopt five little two-year-old boys"
Life is a cabaret at Les Milandes : "Jo [Bouillon] would seduce young men"
More comebacks, more babies, more losses : "In 1959, Josephine Baker was a has-been"
Twenty lawsuits and the Legion of Honor : "I can't take care of six hundred acres and eleven children"
The March on Washington, and the death of JFK : "I'm not the star, just another sister"
Uncle Fidel, and last gasps at Les Milandes : "I know God will not abandon me"
Down and almost out in Paris : "What happened to all that money?"
Princess Grace to the rescue : "I want to be buried in the nightgown of my agony"
Maman is tough on the kids ... and herself : "At a certain age, one should stop having sex"
A plan to make three million dollars in America : "She knew how to profit from her friends"
Josephine marries "in spirit," and wrecks a tour : "Once men get what they want, they keep walking"
Josephine is sick but won't admit it : "It was her last chance to reconquer Paris"
Going out in a blaze of glory : "We always believed she was immortal"
An open letter to my second mother : "You were a hustler; I'm a hustler too"

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