The Secret History of Wonder Woman

by Jill Lepore

New Book of the Week , October 27, 2014

Boy (or I should say "Girl"), Jill Lepore must have been thrilled when she came upon the previously unseen papers of Wonder Woman's creator William Marston. The facts, both sensational and substantial, behind the Amazon superhero's true origin story make her career an even more revealing case study in 20th-century feminist iconography

— Tom

The Secret History of Wonder Woman was reviewed in Newsletter #15 on October 27, 2014. For more like this, and other bookish news, sign up for the newsletter .

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