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The Book Show #1377 - Jill Lepore

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published December 9, 2014 at 3:06 PM EST

  Historian Jill Lepore was researching an article for The New Yorker on the history of Planned Parenthood and a paper on the history of evidence when she discovered that both were connected to comic book hero - Wonder Woman. That led to her new book: The Secret History of Wonder Woman.
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