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This story of the legend that is Barbra Streisand chronicles moments of her life from the beginning.

Barbra: The Way She Is, however, starts in 1998 as she weds her soul mate James Brolin at their Malibu estate.

Circling backwards in time, we learn about her early ambitions to act, and how she found a way into that magical world that would hopefully give her what she had missed the most in life: acceptance and love.

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We learn of her critical mother and the hole in her life after her father's death. Her cruel stepfather definitely informed her journey.

In some ways, Andersen's biography seemed, however, to focus most on the negative elements in Barbra; almost as if he had an ax to grind. Was she really as atrocious, demanding, objectionable, and obsessive as his portrayal suggests?

But to be fair, he also gives us her stellar moments and lavishes the reader with details about her romances and numerous love affairs.

His descriptions of her gor