Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time.
Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has stood the test of time like the ass kicking Amazon.
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered the history of Wonder Woman’s own secret identity.
She extensively researches a trove of documents, including the private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman’s elusive creator.
Strangely enough, Marston also invented the lie detector and was a famous psychologist.
Marston was inspired to dream up Wonder Woman by early suffragists and feminists,
Beginning with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman at Harvard.
In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century.
Harvard professor and New Yorker contributor Jill Lepore, the author of ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman’ joined Sean on the show:
