num_pages: 321
description: Follows the singer's rise from poverty and obscurity to international stardom against the backdrop of 1920's Paris and a Europe in the shadow of Hilter, and recounts her later civil rights activism and many adoptions
language: English
title: Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
titlecomplete: Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time
genres: France, Biography, Gender, Music, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 169
publisher: Doubleday