“This is the most intelligent book that I have read about Barbra Streisand. It is more a critique of her phenomenal, trailblazing career than a compendium of Wikipedia-like and gossip-page information about her. This means you will not read about why she dislikes the color orange in her trailers or how she fell in love with a hairdresser, which almost every other Streisand book offers immeasurably. Instead, we get from the author a carefully, oftentimes wittily, dissected scorecard of her outputs as a singer, actress, and director. The results are as entertaining, engaging, and unpredictable as the woman herself.”
