Madame C J Walker (Black American Series) [ILLUSTRATED] (Mass Market Paperback)

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Product Description

A biography of the Afro-American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and who, throughout her life, devoted herself to many social and political causes.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Holloway House Publishing Company (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870675974
• ISBN-13: 978-0870675973
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,350,951 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Borrows extensively from more in depth books about Walker, May 24, 1999

By A Customer

This paperback biography by Cookie Lommel is part of a series that generally relies on secondary sources and contains some errors. Much of it appears to borrow extensively from a more thorough, primary source biography written by A'Lelia Bundles, Madam Walker's great-great-granddaughter, in 1991 for Chelsea House.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling, July 13, 2000

By	Georges N. Chamchoum (Marina Del Rey, CA) - See all my reviews

Madame CJ Walker by Cookie Lommel is a biography that reads easely and is most thrilling. It's interesting to discover a piece of American History that is obscure to many. Written in a way that is direct and most interesting. A book to be read---- now!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Balanced Account, July 12, 2000

By A Customer

C.J. Walker is a little known character in the ongoing epic of the American Dream. Cookie Lommel captures the life of this first female mllionairess without the cloying hype of political correctness. With her easy style Ms Lommel gives a detailed account of her subject's life allowing her audiences to draw their own conclusions of this monumental African-American life. As a Caucasian male I'm shamed that I did not know more before this first masterful encounter with C. J. Walker. Brava Ms Lommel