MADONNA! Diva-provocateur! Artist, mogul, and self-promoter par excellence! The most outrageous brilliant, controversial, scandalous, and extraordinary pop superstar of our time...or anytime! No celebrity has ever endured more intense public scrutiny of her personal and professional lives...nor has succeeded in, changing her persona so dramatically--and so often--under its withering gaze. With skill, candor, and remarkable insight, author Barbara Victor now takes us deep inside Madonna's world--her loves and her scandals; her roots, her rise, and her incomparable triumphs--to give us the most complete and revealing portrait to date of the self-styled Material Girl, arguably one of the most influential American entertainers of the past century...and undeniably a phenomenon.