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By: Benjamin Moser
ISBN: 9781681370804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Norman Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. This is his account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the Ivory Tower.
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By: Manning Marable
ISBN: 9780141024301
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Malcolm X was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer; who became a petty criminal; and, who became a self-taught intellectual. This title chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X, describing the multiple masks he donned over the years.
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By: Hugo Vickers
ISBN: 9781529338034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st July 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary - often legendary - characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton.
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By: Hugo Vickers
ISBN: 9781529376401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary - often legendary - characters in his search for the real Cecil Beaton.
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By: Max Mallowan
ISBN: 9780007331246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.
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By: Christina Noble
ISBN: 9781848548428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The inspiring sequel to Bridge Across My Sorrows
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By: Dustin Lance Black
ISBN: 9781473665453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up Mormon in Texas from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and leading spokesperson for LGBTQ rights.
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By: Justin Baldoni
ISBN: 9780063055605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Joseph Vogel
ISBN: 9780525566571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2019
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Jennet Conant
ISBN: 9781476730912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Examines the "life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant"--Amazon.com.
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By: Colin Shindler
ISBN: 9780755363889
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 24th May 2012
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year
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By: Peter Hain
ISBN: 9781786607577
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mandela: His Essential Life is the only short, popular and accessible book that tells Mandela's entire and remarkable story.
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By: Anthony Sampson
ISBN: 9780007437979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampsons remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.
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By: Jeffrey Schloesser
ISBN: 9781682619896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Post Hill Press
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From Major General Jeffrey Schloesserformer Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-Eastcomes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.
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By: Laurence Bergreen
ISBN: 9781847247674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2009
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The extraordinary life of one of the great travellers of world history
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By: Frank McLynn
ISBN: 9781844135271
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death.
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By: Andy Merriman
ISBN: 9781845135850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2010
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
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Margaret Rutherford was without a doubt one of Britain s best-loved comic actresses.
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By: Charles Moore
ISBN: 9780140279566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. This title gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British politics.
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By: Charles Moore
ISBN: 9780241324745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Alexandra Ravenscroft
ISBN: 9780552551199
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2006
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection.
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By: Will Bashor
ISBN: 9781538138243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This riveting book explores the little-known intimate life of Marie Antoinette and her family in a world filled with intrigue, infidelity, and adultery. Will Bashor unveils the hedonistic atmosphere at Versailles as we learn the secret language of the queen's fan and explore the hidden passageways and staircases of endless intrigue at the palace.
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By: Richard Gunderman
ISBN: 9780233006178
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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This biography does full justice to the scientific and human aspects of Marie's life, detailing her tumultuous personal history at a time of social upheaval, and her struggle to gain recognition in an era when female scientists were almost unknown.
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By: Carl Rollyson
ISBN: 9781442230798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Michelle Morgan
ISBN: 9781780331287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A comprehensive and meticulously researched biography that reveals the real Marilyn, revised and expanded to co-incide with the 50th anniversary of her death
