Becoming Mae West

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Becoming Mae West is written by Emily Worth Leider and published by Da Capo Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0306809516 (ISBN 10) and 9780306809514 (ISBN 13).

Emily Worth Leider combines newly uncovered archival material, fine writing, and a rich appreciation of West's unique blend of comedy and "come-hither" appeal to shape this enormously engrossing biography and portrait of an era. She gives us not just Mae West the bawdy icon, but also the driven performer who honed her act on the vaudeville circuit, wrote her own material to get a decent part, and never stopped battling the censor—the very people who provided some of her best publicity but who eventually struck a blow for prudery from which her career would never recover.