Becoming Mae West

Acknowledged authors Leider, Emily Wortis wrote Becoming Mae West comprising 480 pages back in 2000. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0306809516 and 9780306809514. Since then Becoming Mae West textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

Emily Worth Leider combines newly uncovered archival material, fine writing, and a rich appreciation of West's unique blend of comedy and "come-hither" appeal to shape this enormously engrossing biography and portrait of an era. She gives us not just Mae West the bawdy icon, but also the driven performer who honed her act on the vaudeville circuit, wrote her own material to get a decent part, and never stopped battling the censor—the very people who provided some of her best publicity but who eventually struck a blow for prudery from which her career would never recover.