Madam C. J. Walker: The Making of an American Icon by Erica L. Ball (English) Ha

by Erica L. Ball

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Madam C. J. Walker by Erica L. Ball Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Madam C. J. Walker reputed to be America s first self-made woman millionaire has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker s times. Publisher Description [An] exhaustively detailed account of the life of Madam C.J. Walker. Booklist, Starred Review Madam C. J. Walker reputed to be America s first self-made woman millionaire has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and working-class African American women. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. In this biography, Erica Ball places this remarkable and largely forgotten life story in the context of Walker s times. Ball analyzes Walker s remarkable acts of self-fashioning, and explores the ways that Walker (and the Walker brand) enabled a new generati

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781442260382
• Condition: Fine

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