Agent Josephine

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The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022Vanity Fair, Best Books of 2022Booklist, Best Books of 2022Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world's richest and mos t glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France.Prior to World War II, Josephine Baker was a music-hall diva renowned for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality; she was the highest-paid female performer in Europe. When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage, along with all "negroes and Jews." Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy. Show more