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"Well researched and thoughtfully written, this book manages to be an excellent read and will appeal to anyone interested in popular culture."--Sarah Jenkins, The Guardian
"Gundle is brilliant at the old razzle-dazzle."--Veronica Horwell, Saturday Guardian
"This book is a thoroughly comprehensive and meticulously researched history of glamour."--Times Literary Supplement
"A narrative rich with captivating details and commentary.... Essential for those with a keen interest in the sociology of popular culture and stardom."--Library Journal
"A substantial book about an insubstantial, yet somehow fascinating, topic."--The Independent
"Well-researched and thoughtfully written, this book manages to be an excellent read and will to anyone interested in popular culture."--Books Quarterly
"Glamour: A History is on the whole a wonderfully engaging read."--Otago Daily Times
"The book captures the excitement and sex appeal of glamour while exposing its mechanisms and exploring its sleazy and sometimes tragic underside. As Gundle shows, while glamour is exciting and magnetic, its promise is ultimately an illusion that can only ever be partially fulfilled."--Irish Mail onSunday
"[A] pathbreaking study...Gundle has written the first general history of what has become a central drive of our contemporary consumer culture and its expressions in the popular culture that accompanies it." -- Journal of Social History
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