Any woman lawyer at the end of 2014 might have a hard time imagining a time in America when women could not vote, when the few women with college degrees seldom could find jobs and people were sent to prison for selling contraceptives.   The struggle of women to be treated as equal citizens is just one of the many stories told in "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" by Jill Lepore. This book is a biography of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator, but it is also the tale of the struggle for women's rights in the early 20th Century. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, which is why they play such a prominent role in the book. Marston was a lawyer, pioneer psychologist, Hollywood screenwriter and inventor of the polygraph machine.  The seminal 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case of Frye v. U.S., which held that expert testimony must be based on scientific methods that are sufficiently established and ... Read More >