Taraborrelli's strength as a biographer is his tenacity to dig beneath the surface to find the motivations and insecurities behind Taylor's actions, and his care helps listeners discover the dynamic charisma and good humor that have attracted men and moviegoers to her.

Maclean's precise and nimble reading makes it nearly impossible for listeners to resist the pull of Taraborrelli's compassionate chronicle of the wild and tempestuous life of Elizabeth Taylor. With her more than a half dozen full-length biographies and five decades as tabloid fodder, most listeners will be well acquainted with surface events in Taylor's life. There are the eight marriages (five of them before she was 32), the affairs, multiple suicide attempts, decades of life-and-death health issues, the jewelry collection and finally her AIDS activism. Taraborrelli's strength as a biographer is his tenacity to dig beneath the surface to find the motivations and insecurities behind Taylor's actions, and his care helps listeners discover the dynamic charisma and good humor that have attracted men and moviegoers to her. Maclean's narration sails effortlessly over a life full of globe-trotting without stumbling over foreign names and locales. Taraborrelli bookends the production by reading a five-minute overview at the beginning and participating in a brief q&a session at the end of the fifth violet-colored disc, where he praises Taylor's indomitable will and ability to survive.

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Prologue

Part One～CHILDHOOD

　Sara and Francis

　A Change in Sara

　A Family Held Hostage?

　"Bravo!

　"Missing a Father's Love"

　"I Think I Might Want to Be an Actress"

　A New Life in America

　"But I Want to Be with MGM!"

　National Velvet

　Making a Star... a Star!

Part Two～FINDING HER WAY

　Early Suitors... and Howard Hughes

　Nicky Hilton

　Elizabeth's Anger

　Uncle Howard Gets Rid of Nicky Hilton

　Michael Wilding

　A Marriage Devoid of Passion

　Movies

　Mike Todd

　Mike Todd's Sudden Death

　Eddie Fisher

　Elizabeth and Eddie Marry

　Butterfield

Part Three～HER DESTINY

　A False Start for Cleopatra

　A Near-Death Experience and Then an Oscar

　Cleopatra Begins Filming

　Richard Burton

　Elizabeth Adopts a Baby

　"Love, in All of Its Mystery, Unfolds"

　Elizabeth Confesses to Eddie about Richard

　Unadulterated Drama

　Elizabeth Attempts Suicide?

　"Le Scandale"

　The Taylor-Burton Sexual Revolution

　Cleopatra Arrives

　Elizabeth as a Mother

Part Four～"LIZ AND DICK

 Elizabeth and Richard: "We Will Have No

 More Marriages

The Boston Brawl 

Richard's Hemophilia 

 "Even Our Fights Are Fun

 Elizabeth Apologizes to Debbie 

 Who's Afraid of Vir~nia Woolf? !

 Bad Movies, Great Riches, and Another Oscar 

 "Francis L. Taylor All Our Love----

 "Learning from Each Other

 "I Sometimes Curse the Day...

 "Pray for Us

 And What of the Children? 

Part Five～CONFUSION REIGNS

 "What Makes Us Women

 Henry Wynberg 

 Elizabeth Divorces Richard 

 Elizabeth Marries Richard... Again! 

 A Diversion before Divorce 

 Richard Asks for Another Divorce 

Part Six～CNMING TO TERMS

 John Warner 

Elizabeth Marries John 

 An Important Transition 

 The Little Foxes 

 Sifting Through the Wreckage 

 A Birthday Reunion with Richard 

 "God Has Kept an Eye on My Children

 Elizabeth Gets Her Way 

 Private Lives and Private Miseries 

 Richard Marries... Someone Else.. 

 Intervention 

 Betty Ford Center 

 Richard Burton Dies 

 Transition 

Part Seven～THE GLORY YEARS

 "I Will Not Be Ignored

 Elizabeth Taylor's Passion 

 Back at Betty Ford 

 Larry Fortensky 

 Michael Jackson 

 Elizabeth Marries Larry 

 Re-creating Her Mother's Marriage... but Not Quite 

Part Eight～ALL WOMAN

 "Sara S. Taylor--Loving Mother, Devoted Wife---

 Elizabeth and Larry End Their Marriage 

 Facing Her Mortality... Again 

 Dame Elizabeth: Honor at Last 

 Selected Cast of Characters

 Acknowledgments

 Sources and Other Notes 

 Elizab