Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman - Hardcover

Advance Praise for Jane Fonda

“Watching Jane Fonda wrestle with her many passions has been one of the most fascinating stories of the past fifty years. Brilliant, beautiful, achingly vulnerable, self-wounding, Fonda is one of the greatest film stars to ever appear on the screen. Her life deserves to be reevaluated as it is in Patricia Bosworth’s Jane Fonda.” — Alec Baldwin 

“Jane Fonda was born with beauty and talent. Now she’s blessed with a biographer who knows Hollywood and understands the human condition. Nothing about Fonda’s life (her obsession with her looks, her lovers, her husbands, her money, and her elusive father) escapes the keen eye of Patricia Bosworth, who tells the life story of one of the most intriguing women of our era. You will be enthralled.”  — Kitty Kelley, author of Oprah: A Biography

“Patricia Bosworth’s brilliant detective work has unearthed so much about Jane Fonda that I didn’t know — so much feeling, so much courage, so much hurt. It reveals Fonda as the archetypal woman of her generation: a woman torn between love and work, family and accomplishment. Bosworth’s book is far from another Hollywood biography; it is a human portrait and, at the same time, a major American life. Reading this book, living Jane’s life along with her, is an adventure and a pleasure.”  — William Mann, author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

“Far more than a spellbinding biography, Jane Fonda sweeps the reader into a cultural history of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, when this icon helped define the causes of the era. The access gained by Bosworth is impressive — lovers, stepmothers, and ex-husbands share their secrets, adding to what will certainly become the definitive portrait of a woman conflicted, torn between ferocious ambition, family, and feminist causes. Bosworth’s rendering of Fonda’s interior chaos becomes a revealing probe into the female psyche.” — Gail Sheehy, author of Passages 

“Patricia Bosworth has written an irresistible biography of the accomplished, controversial actress whose roles onscreen and off helped define a generation. Whether you love Jane Fonda or abhor her, Jane Fonda is a detailed and generous exploration not only of the contradictory world Fonda grew up in but of the many people who shaped her.” — Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle