Do You like book Josephine Baker: The Hungry Heart (2001)?
What an amazing life this woman did have. She was a dancer, actress, occasional musician, and a spy for the French Resistence. She was an amazing person, she adopted many, many children, I think twelve in all, and fed them, clothed them, kept them safe, and loved them all.She was involved in the French Resistence, and after the poor death of Martin Luther King Jr., became the unofficial leader of the leader of the Civil Rights movement.I have always loved Josephine Baker, and she is one of the major historical figures that I would love to meet. Upon reading this book, I also found out that she was Biesexual. Such a thing was common with the girls at the Moulin Rogue, and other such dance houses. I think though, that it must have been hard for her adopted son, Jean-Claude Baker, to investigate his mother's extramarital affairs, and such things that any child would generall find unpleasent to learn, but his is a historian after all.It saddens me that certain sections of society have forgotten about Josephine Baker, and such other great figures of the Roaring Twenties. But, I remember her, and think that this book is one of greatest books on the subject of Josephine Baker herself, and a great books about the Twenties, French Resistence, and Civil Rights movements.
—Gabriel
