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Full of memorable tidbits, including a decade-by-decade breakdown of the most popular lipstick shades, this colorful survey will delight history and fashion buffs alike. - Publisher's Weekly, starred review Carter details a fresh, fabulous, and often frightening trip through the social, political, cultural, and sartorial impact of female rebellion all while staring down the barrel of a lipstick tube. It is the fascinating story of how America came to be one nation under gloss. - Tonya Hurley, New York Times and international-bestselling author Even though you may not have thought much about red lipstick, it has probably still imprinted your psyche. This book, packed with historical tidbits both delightful and disturbing, is as much a survey of the ways history is told as of the way lipstick's meaning has developed in Western culture and commerce. It's an entertaining and thoughtful journey through the landscape of modern advertising, beauty standards, and American history. - Jo Weldon, author of Fierce: The History of Leopard Print Wise, witty and erudite. I now know a lot more about the history of beauty culture than I ever knew I wanted to, and I'm better for it. -John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and Victory City

An unique and riveting focus on a heretofore obscure element of American pop culture and history, The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History is an extraordinarily informative and inherently fascinating study that is enhanced for both academia and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the subject with the inclusion of eighteen pages of Notes and a ten page Index. - Midwest Book Review Full of memorable tidbits, including a decade-by-decade breakdown of the most popular lipstick shades, this colorful survey will delight history and fashion buffs alike. - Publisher's Weekly, starred review Carter details a fresh, fabulous, and often frightening trip through the social, political, cultural, and sartorial impact of female rebellion all while staring down the barrel of a lipstick tube. It is the fascinating story of how America came to be one nation under gloss. - Tonya Hurley, New York Times and international-bestselling author Even though you may not have thought much about red lipstick, it has probably still imprinted your psyche. This book, packed with historical tidbits both delightful and disturbing, is as much a survey of the ways history is told as of the way lipstick's meaning has developed in Western culture and commerce. It's an entertaining and thoughtful journey through the landscape of modern advertising, beauty standards, and American history. - Jo Weldon, author of Fierce: The History of Leopard Print Wise, witty and erudite. I now know a lot more about the history of beauty culture than I ever knew I wanted to, and I'm better for it. -John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and Victory City

"""Carter details a fresh, fabulous, and often frightening trip through the social, political, cultural, and sartorial impact of female rebellion all while staring down the barrel of a lipstick tube. It is the fascinating story of how America came to be one nation under gloss."" - Tonya Hurley, New York Times and international-bestselling author ""Even though you may not have thought much about red lipstick, it has probably still imprinted your psyche. This book, packed with historical tidbits both delightful and disturbing, is as much a survey of the ways history is told as of the way lipstick's meaning has developed in Western culture and commerce. It's an entertaining and thoughtful journey through the landscape of modern advertising, beauty standards, and American history."" - Jo Weldon, author of Fierce: The History of Leopard Print ""Wise, witty and erudite. I now know a lot more about the history of beauty culture than I ever knew I wanted to, and I'm better for it."" -John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and Victory City"

Wise, witty and erudite. I now know a lot more about the history of beauty culture than I ever knew I wanted to, and I'm better for it. -John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and Victory City

Carter details a fresh, fabulous, and often frightening trip through the social, political, cultural, and sartorial impact of female rebellion all while staring down the barrel of a lipstick tube. It is the fascinating story of how America came to be one nation under gloss. - Tonya Hurley, New York Times and international-bestselling author Even though you may not have thought much about red lipstick, it has probably still imprinted your psyche. This book, packed with historical tidbits both delightful and disturbing, is as much a survey of the ways history is told as of the way lipstick's meaning has developed in Western culture and commerce. It's an entertaining and thoughtful journey through the landscape of modern advertising, beauty standards, and American history. - Jo Weldon, author of Fierce: The History of Leopard Print Wise, witty and erudite. I now know a lot more about the history of beauty culture than I ever knew I wanted to, and I'm better for it. -John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and Victory City

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ILISE S. CARTER is freelance writer, consulting copywriter to the beauty industry, and sideshow performer based in New York City. She has written for Allure, New York Times, Racked, Wall Street Journal, and others, with a focus on pop culture. In addition, she’s spent over a decade as a consulting copywriter for beauty brands such as Shiseido, bliss, Laura Mercier, Avon, L’Oréal, and Madame CJ Walker, specializing in brand voice and identity. As her stage persona, The Lady Aye, she has worked as professional sideshow performer (sword swallower, fire eater, blockhead, and pain-proof girl) and MC with acts ranging from Rob Zombie to Cirque du Soleil, and has appeared on TV’s Gossip Girl, Odditties, The President Show, Mysteries at the Museum and Dickinson. Carter holds a BA in American Studies from Barnard College at Columbia University and a Certificate in Film Production from NYU.

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