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|title=America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt

|author=John L Williams

|publisher=Quercus

|date=August 2013

|summary=A biography of Eartha Kitt, the singer, actress and dancer whose career spanned almost half a century from the 1950s onwards.

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Two quotes on the back of the dust jacket testify to the power and public perception of Eartha Kitt during her lifetime. Orson Welles once called her ‘the most exciting woman in the world’, while to the CIA she was ‘a sadistic nymphomaniac’.