Behind 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman'

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Nov 13, 2014

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Behind 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman'

Few people know how Wonder Woman, the most popular female comic book superhero, came to be. Jill Lepore tells the incredible story told in the new book "The Secret History of Wonder Woman."

Few people know how Wonder Woman, the most popular female comic book superhero, came to be. Jill Lepore tells the incredible story told in the new book "The Secret History of Wonder Woman."

Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic book superhero of all time.

Many Americans are familiar with her fabulous theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rBZIzr49k

Her sexy, patriotic get up.

And Suffering Sappho! those fabulous exclamations of hers.

But few people know how she came to be.

It's an incredible story told in the new book "The Secret History of Wonder Woman."

Joining Take Two in studio, author Jill Lepore is also a bit of a Wonder Woman herself - she's a prize-winning Harvard historian and a staff writer for The New Yorker.