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By: Houdini
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Atria: October 2006
Seller ID: 397787
ISBN: 0743272072
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Hughes, Howard
Price: $6.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: November 2004
Seller ID: 355515
ISBN: 0312329970
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma.
Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his descent into madness. Bestselling biographer Charles Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes:
* his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and numerous others
* his forays into sadomasochism
* his involvement with Richar...
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By: Hughes, Howard
Price: $7.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin: November 2004
Seller ID: 395728
ISBN: 0312329970
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
His wealth was legendary. His passions were bizarre. Now, the truth about the money, the madness, and the man behind the enigma.
Howard Hughes is one of the best known and least understood men of our times--famed for his wealth, his daring, and his descent into madness. Bestselling biographer Charles Higham goes beyond the enigma to reveal the incredible private life of Howard Hughes:
* his romances with the great stars of Hollywood--Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, and numerous others
* his forays into sadomasochism
* his involvement with Richar...
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By: Ian Hamilton
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Trafalgar Square: September 1988
Seller ID: 343038
ISBN: 0434313319
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: Ishbel Ross
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Putnam: January 1973
Seller ID: 340211
ISBN: 0399111328
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Ivan Doig
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Mariner Books: October 1982
Seller ID: 344019
ISBN: 0156972158
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1997
Seller ID: 374319
ISBN: 0140247963
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
Drawing on nearly ten years of research and hundreds of hours of inte...
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Price: $15.95
Publisher: Random House: January 1957
Seller ID: 338977
ISBN: B0099KKBVA
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Fortress Press: September 1987
Seller ID: 337206
ISBN: 0806623152
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: James R. Mellow
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Da Capo Press: September 1993
Seller ID: 378414
ISBN: 0201626209
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
In this brilliant, elegantly written biography, award-winning author James R. Mellow offers a thorough reassessment of a man who was both a literary giant and an icon for his age. The final volume in Mellow's "Lost Generation" trilogy, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences is also a homage to Paris in the 1920s and a tribute to the writers and artists who set the indelible standards for the modern age.
By: Jan Pottker
Price: $5.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Press: October 2001
Seller ID: 366218
ISBN: 0312266073
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Jane Hawking
Price: $6.95
Publisher: Alma Books: November 2014
Seller ID: 297563
ISBN: 1846883474
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: JANET WALLACH
Price: $6.95
Publisher: N/A: July 2005
Seller ID: 375299
ISBN: 1400096197
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
This "richly textured biography" (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television.
Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the...By: Jase Robertson
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Howard Books: May 2014
Seller ID: 295637
ISBN: 1476763534
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - VeryGood
By: Jay Parini
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co: February 1995
Seller ID: 341338
ISBN: 0805016732
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Jay Parini
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Picador: March 2000
Seller ID: 381703
ISBN: 0805063412
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Jean H. Baker
Price: $7.95
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: August 1987
Seller ID: 328374
ISBN: 0393024369
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $6.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2008
Seller ID: 341208
ISBN: 0393333035
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln beautifully conveys her tumultuous life and times. A privileged daughter of the proud clan that founded Lexington, Kentucky, Mary fell into a stormy romance with the raw Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln. For twenty-five years the Lincolns forged opposing temperaments into a tolerant, loving marriage. Even as the nation suffered secession and civil war, Mary experienced the tragedies of losing three of her four children and then her husband. An insanity trial orchestrated by her surviving son led to her confinement in an asylum. Mary Todd Linco...
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By: Jean-Claude Suares, J. Spencer Beck
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Lickle Pub Inc: October 1994
Seller ID: 288823
ISBN: 1565660773
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
By: Jeff Davis
Price: $7.95
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education: August 2006
Seller ID: 297494
ISBN: 0071477411
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood
"Papa Bear is everything a sports book should be: Passionate, encyclopedic, utterly biased and filled with endearingly anachronistic phrases. . ."
--New York Times Book Review
Granted unprecedented access to George Halas's former players, friends and associates, author Jeff Davis tells the incredible story of how one man grabbed an outlaw game by the throat, shook it up, and made it into the most popular spectator sport on the planet.