Celebrity

From celebrities' bodies and pregnancies to their spiritualities and deaths, Daniel Harris skillfully pulls back the curtain on celebrity culture and all its gossip guzzling, limelight lusting, and publicity pandering. We despise celebrities as much as we adore them. They dominate the headlines and permeate our headspace. We want to see in them our best characteristics, but we revel in their failures and scandals. This paradox shapes not only the stories and lies we tell about them but also their behavior--and our own. But never before have we demanded the way we do now that our stars fashion themselves into moral templates, enrolling in rehab and issuing statements every time they fail a breathalyzer test or stumble on the red carpet. So how did we get here? How did Oscar Wilde beget Paris Hilton? The answer will surprise you.