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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The legendary actor and best-selling author of Pieces of My Heart offers a nostalgic look at Hollywood's golden age, touring favorite hotspots and exploring period business practices before the advent of paparazzi culture and high-powered agents.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping out her friend, Edward's daughter--who lives far away and asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot souffle will end up changing her life. As Edward and Isabel...
83) The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A rare and fascinating insight into Hitlers inner circle Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing HitlerThe last unpublished work by a Nazi of any significance The Sunday Telegraph As secretary to the Fhrer throughout the time of the Third Reich, Christa Schroeder was perfectly placed to observe the actions and behavior of Hitler, along with the most important figures surrounding him. Schroeders memoir does not fail to deliver fascinating insights: she...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Remember when Trump was a great boss, a great father, and a great businessman, before the liberal media rewrote that narrative? That's still the real Trump. Longtime Trump Organization executive and attorney George A. Sorial saw the real Trump firsthand, from the early days of The Apprentice to the passing of power to the younger generation before the inauguration. He learned from his boss how to use chaos, the media, and a single-minded focus to...
Author
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospel accounts of Jesus's last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel's Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus's final days on earth. Schnabel profiles the seventy-two people and groups and the seventeen...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Take an exclusive look inside the Oval Office from an unlikely perspective. As a black conservative, Ron Christie has often taken the road less traveled. And now, he carries readers along with him on his unique, illuminating journey through the hallowed halls of the West Wing and into the sacred chamber of the Oval Office, as he shows the real workings inside one of the most secretive administrations ever: the White House of George W. Bush. Who really...
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A "truly exceptional" account of how Churchill's experiences in the armed forces helped him lead Britain to victory in World War II ( Booklist ). No defense minister in modern times has faced the challenges that Winston Churchill did during the Second World War. Fortunately, he had a unique and intimate inside knowledge of all three services, which allowed him to assess their real needs -- a crucial task when money, material resources, and, especially,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"An intimate portrait of Lincoln , so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page." -- Charleston Post & Courier Lincoln's Men by Daniel Mark Epstein offers a fascinating close-up view of the Abraham Lincoln White House through the eyes of Lincoln 's three personal secretaries: John Nicolay, William Stoddard, and John Hay. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's monumental New York Times bestseller, Team of Rivals, Epstein's Lincoln's Men sheds a new light...
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