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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

$26.00

By Neal Gabler
Published April 26, 2016
296 pages

“Fascinating and insightful” —The Wall Street Journal

An enthralling appreciation of the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood’s standards of beauty and glamour

Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless.

Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness—a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention—and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.

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About the Author

Neal Gabler is the author of four previous books. Both An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His other books include Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, which was named nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine, and Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality.

Author photograph © Christina Gabler




Reviews

“Superb” —Booklist, Starred Review

“This brief biography looks at a well-documented star in a new way.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Fascinating details abound…a worthy book.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[A] trim, insightful Streisand meta-biography” —LA Review of Books


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