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Book Review of Jane Fonda: The Actress in Her Time

Jane Fonda: The Actress in Her Time
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From chic jet setter to sex goddess, from antiwar zealot to Academy award winning actress from mainstream wife and mother to plictical activist to becoming a major powerhouse in the Hollywood industry. Jane Fonda has been growing and changing and surviving and winning.
The candid, admiring honest portrait is no fairytale Jane Fonda's life has not been easy - her Hollywood childhood, an unpredictable movie star father, a haunting family tragedy, a notorious marriage, her evolving radicalism and the public outcries against her. Jane Fonda is an exceptional woman of many identities, a determined gifted actress at the height of her power and she's become one of America's most universally admired women. 53 photos