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Biographies & Memoirs
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Somebody
to Love? : A Rock-And-Roll Memoir by Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (Contributor) |
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Warner Books Paperback - 384 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Grace Slick looks back on a lifetime of sex, drugs and rock & roll in Somebody to Love?, a wisecracking memoir featuring cameos by some mighty famous faces. As the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and, still later, Starship), Slick had a ringside seat for some of the... Read more
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At
Home With the Marquis De Sade : A Life by Francine Du Plessix Gray |
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| -- On Order Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 496 pages Reissue edition (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Lending his name to the term sadism, and synonymous with pornography and sexual perversion, the infamous Marquis de Sade was inarguably mad, bad, and dangerous to know. But the very qualities that were repellent in the man make for fascinating reading in Francine du Plessix Gray's biography, At Home... Read more
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The
Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up by Andrew Tobias |
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Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Paperback - 288 pages (January 2000) (December 1, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com In 1973 Andrew Tobias published The Best Little Boy in the World under the pseudonym John Reid in order to avoid telling people (including his parents) that he was gay. Since then, he's gone on to become a bestselling finance writer (The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need) and columnist for ... Read more
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Johannes
Brahms : A Biography by Jan Swafford |
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Vintage Books Paperback - 752 pages (December 1999) |
$14.40 $3.60 Click here for more info |
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| Amazon.com When pondering the biggies of Western classical music, three B's spring to mind--Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Indeed Johannes Brahms inherited, much to his dismay--and at an early age--Beethoven's mantle. Aware, thus, that his materials--letters, notes, early compositions--would provide a feeding... Read more
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German Question : Growing Up in Nazi Berlin by Peter Gay |
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Yale Univ Pr Paperback - 256 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Cultural historian Peter Gay (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Freud: A Life for Our Time) applies his considerable analytic skills to his memoir of his early years as a Jew in 1930s Berlin. Light-haired, blue-eyed, and culturally assimilated, the Frohlich family, as they were then... Read more
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Victoria's
Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard |
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Griffin Trade Paperback Paperback - 384 pages (December 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Incisive character studies of Queen Victoria's five daughters provide the framework for a lively survey of 19th-century European history. With three brothers securing the English throne, the princesses' royal duty was to further Britain's interests through marriage. Vivacious, intelligent Vicky... Read more
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Angela's
Ashes : A Memoir Movie Tie-In by Frank McCourt |
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Touchstone Books Paperback - 368 pages (November 1999) |
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The
Roosevelt Women by Betty Boyd Caroli |
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| -- On Order Basic Books Paperback - 512 pages (November 1, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com First Ladies Eleanor (Franklin's wife) and Edith (Theodore's) are both subjects of full-scale biographies, and Theodore's daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth remains legendary for her caustic wit. In this book, historian Betty Boyd Caroli looks at seven additional powerful Roosevelt women (the family... Read more
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Francis
Bacon by Perez Zagorin |
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Princeton Univ Pr Paperback - 312 pages (November 1999) |
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| The Wall Street Journal,
Roger Kimball ...[an] excellent ... biography... --This text refers to the hardcover edition of this title Read more
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