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Verdict: Award-winning biographer Maier (Dr. Spock: An American Life) delivers the first in-depth look at a complex couple who helped revolutionize the study of human sexual response. Academics and amateur sexperts alike will rejoice. Background: Drawing on interviews with family, friends, former colleagues, and the famously private couple themselves, Maier chronicles the life and research of leading American sex experts Virginia E. Johnson and Dr. William H. Masters, who studied sexual intimacy, orgasms, and sexual dysfunction and satisfaction for over 40 years. The public viewed the couple as experts on relationships and intimacy, but Maier reveals that their 20-year partnership (which ended in divorce) was conflict-ridden..-Troy Reed, Southeast Regional Lib., Gilbert, AZ Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More