| Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl GordonSocialite Bunny Mellon, who inherited one fortune and married into another, was both a fashion plate and a brilliant designer. A close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy, Mellon refurbished the White House Rose Garden in 1961. This well-researched, detailed, and admiring portrait covers Mellon's 103 years of life and illuminates significant aspects of 20th-century American history. |
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| Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe HaganIn Sticky Fingers, journalist Joe Hagan offers a moving and vividly descriptive portrait of Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine. Beginning in November 1967, Wenner piloted the counterculture, ultimately fulfilling his ambition to become rock journalism's equivalent of Henry Luce (mainstream culture's best-known media mogul). Hagan's book will please media fans in addition to devotees of rock music and the phenomena Wenner advanced. |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
by Chris Matthews
Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the public and private worlds of Robert Francis Kennedy. He shines a light on all the important moments of his life, from his early years and his start in politics to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother’s administration and his tragic run for president.
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
by Tina Brown
The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine.
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| Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus with Mary Jordan and Kevin SullivanIn 2013, Amanda Berry escaped from a Cleveland house where she and two other women had been captives for years. After all three were rescued and their captor, Ariel Castro, was jailed, they faced the challenge of readjusting to normal life. In Hope, Berry, fellow former captive Gina DeJesus, and their co-writers relate their disturbing stories, including the birth and early years of Berry's daughter by Castro. Kirkus Reviews calls this a "nuanced testament to the complexity of the human spirit." |
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| Life After Death by Damien EcholsIncarcerated for 18 years after being wrongly convicted of murder, Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three accused of killing three boys as part of a satanic ritual, gives voice to his experiences in prison. In this beautifully written and evocative memoir, Echols opens an "eloquent, even bitterly lyrical" (Library Journal) window onto the grimness of life on Death Row, while reflecting on how he was formed by his impoverished childhood and what it's like to adjust to the world after his release. |
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| The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles GraeberAfter a decade of getting away with killing patients under his care, nurse Charlie Cullen was finally prosecuted by Pennsylvania authorities. Drawing on police records and other resources, author Charles Graeber reveals the gruesome details of Cullen's murders by insulin, chronicles the devastation he wrought, and vividly depicts the nature of his insanity. This page-turner will appeal to true crime buffs as well as others who are concerned about health care safety. |
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