Dorothy Dandridge: A BiographyAvailable once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. "An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era