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Masters of Sex

The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love

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By Thomas Maier

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This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around July 30, 2013. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Now a New Showtime Original Series

Showtime’s dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on Masters and Johnson to teach us everything we needed to know about what goes on in the bedroom. Convincing hundreds of men and women to shed their clothes and copulate, the pair were the nation’s top experts on love and intimacy. Highlighting interviews with the notoriously private Masters and the ambitious Johnson, critically acclaimed biographer Thomas Maier shows how this unusual team changed the way we all thought about, talked about, and engaged in sex while they simultaneously tried to make sense of their own relationship. Entertaining, revealing, and beautifully told, Masters of Sex sheds light on the eternal mysteries of desire, intimacy, and the American psyche.

On Sale
Jul 30, 2013
Page Count
440 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465079995

Thomas Maier

About the Author

Thomas Maier is a long-time investigative reporter for Newsday in New York and has written five books, including Masters of Sex, which became an Emmy-winning Showtime drama, and most recently When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys. Maier is also a producer of the Bravo mini-series based on this book.

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