Article: Why I'm Fonda Hanoi Jane: actress, activist, American. What's not to like?(My Life So Far, Jane Fonda)(Book Review)

To many, maybe even most, Americans, Jane Fonda is the Wal-Mart of activist celebrities--a category killer when it comes to personifying the loathsome limousine liberal, that subspecies of Hollywood Democrat which, in some tellings, is more responsible for the great Republican political ascendancy than the end of the Cold War, Bill Clinton's zipper problems, or George W. Bush's tax cut strategery.

As her new autobiography, My Life So Far (Random House), makes clear, Fonda helped create the very template of the Movie Star As Social Conscience. In the late 1960s and early '70s, bra-less and still sporting her trendsetting shag cut from Klute, Fonda was ubiquitous, ...

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