Category: Biography

Even a short list of Bette Davis's most famous films -- "Of Human Bondage; Jezebel; Dark Victory; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; Now, Voyager; All About Eve; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" -- reveals instantly what a major force she was in Hollywood. Her distinctive voice, her remarkable eyes, her astonishing range and depth of characterization -- all these qualities combined to make Bette Davis one of the finest performers in film history.

Drawing on extensive conversations with Bette Davis during the last decade of her life, Charlotte Chandler gives us a biography in which t...
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The Way I See It

By: Davis, Patti

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Jove: March 1993

Seller ID: 366080

ISBN: 0515110892

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In a sparsely written, painfully eloquent autobiography (San Francisco Chronicle), the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan tells the story of her life with the perfect first family. Davis's family portrait has many cracks.--Los Angeles Times. 32 pages of photographs.
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Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero (Jewish Lives)

By: Dayan, Moshe

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: July 2012

Seller ID: 305168

ISBN: 0300149417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic--and controversial--personalities. As a youth he earned the reputation of a fearless warrior, and in later years as a leading military tactician, admired by peers and enemies alike. As chief of staff during the 1956 Sinai Campaign and as minister of defense during the 1967 Six Day War, Dayan led the Israel Defense Forces to stunning military victories. But in the aftermath of the bungled 1973 Yom Kippur War, he shared the blame for operational mistakes and retired from the governme...
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Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor

By: de Gaulle, Charles

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1972

Seller ID: 265185

ISBN: 0671211188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

By: de Midici

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2008

Seller ID: 357947

ISBN: 0743254341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Magnifico" is a vividly colorful portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age. A true "Renaissance man," Lorenzo dazzled contemporaries with his prodigious talents and magnetic personality. Known to history as "Il Magnifico" (the Magnificent), Lorenzo was not only the foremost patron of his day but also a renowned poet, equally adept at composing philosophical verses and obscene rhymes to be sung at Carnival. He befriended the greatest artists and writers of the time -- Leonardo, Botticelli, Poliziano, and, especially, Michelangelo, whom he discovered ...
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Hernando De Soto: Knight of the Americas (English and Spanish Edition)

By: De Soto, Hernando

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Franklin Watts: October 1986

Seller ID: 317553

ISBN: 0531150062

Binding: Library Binding

Condition: Used - Good

Mistress to an age;: A life of Madame de Stael

By: de Stael, Madame

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Time, Inc: January 1964

Seller ID: 180230

ISBN: B0007DYDZI

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Uneasy Chair, A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

By: DeVoto, Bernard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1974

Seller ID: 265186

ISBN: 0385078846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Uneasy Chair, A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

By: DeVoto, Bernard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1974

Seller ID: 281791

ISBN: 0385078846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

DISRAELI

By: Disraeli

Price: $9.95

Publisher: ST MARTINS PRESS: January 1967

Seller ID: 340186

ISBN: B0012ZTKA8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

By: Doig, Ivan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1982

Seller ID: 344019

ISBN: 0156972158

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.

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The Court Years: 1939 to 1975

By: Douglas, William O.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Random House: September 1980

Seller ID: 265193

ISBN: 0394492404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

John Dryden and His World

By: Dryden, John

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1989

Seller ID: 273575

ISBN: 0300045913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A biography of the poet, dramatist, critic, and translator who dominated Engl literature for forty years and earned the positions of Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal at the English court of the seventeenth century.
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Duveen: A Life in Art

By: Duveen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: September 2004

Seller ID: 333068

ISBN: 0375410422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Meryle Secrest, biographer of Kenneth Clark ("Riveting . . . enthralling" -"Wall Street Journal") and Bernard Berenson ("A remarkable tour de force"-Sir Harold Acton), brings all her exceptional gifts to the story of Lord Duveen of Millbank. Her book is the first major biography in more than fifty years of the supreme international art dealer of the twentieth century and the first to make use of the enormous Duveen archive that spans a century and has, until recently, been kept under lock and key at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The story begins with Duveen pere, a Dutch Jew immigrating ...
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews

By: Dylan

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Wenner: May 2006

Seller ID: 344918

ISBN: 1932958096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Direct from the mouth of America's most celebrated street poet comes a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviews

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features 31 of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection. Among the highlights are the seminal Rolling Stone interviews -- anthologized here for the first time -- by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, and Mikal Gilmore, as well as Nat Hentoff's legendary 1966 Playboy interview. Surprises include Studs Terkel's radio interview in 1963 on WFMT in Chicago, the interview Dyl...
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart

By: Earhart, Amelia

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Da Capo Press: August 2009

Seller ID: 328095

ISBN: 030681837X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought her extraordinary life to an abrupt and mysterious end.

Based on a decade of archival research through Earhart's letters, journals, and diaries, and drawing on interviews with the aviator's friends and relatives, East to the Dawn provides the most authoritative and richly textured account of both Earhart's record-setting aviation career and her personal life: her early years with her gra...
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