Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Bonanos

Celebrating the publication of Naked City at Sammy’s Bowery Follies in July 1945. To accompany its (long, thoughtful, and very warm) review of Naked City that summer, Popular Photography commissioned ...
( Category: Pop Culture June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Jim Powell

THE “FOUR HORSEMEN OF REACTION” gained support on the Court as FDR increasingly asserted arbitrary power via executive orders, rather than going through the legislative process. The Congressional Research Service ...
( Category: Americas June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-24 | Author:Kenneth Weisbrode

Perhaps he did attach too much importance to what he wore; but then he grew up in an age that cared for such things. Endowed with neither inches nor a ...
( Category: Historical June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Kathy Izard

fifteen HOME ALONE Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. —James Baldwin1 The Neighbors at the center no longer felt like strangers now that I was ...
( Category: Christian Living June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Nick Foles & Joshua Cooley

SUCCESS BEGINS TO BREW Eighteen months earlier, I’d been ready to hang up my cleats. Now I had a role as Carson’s backup, and I was learning to embrace it. ...
( Category: Biographies June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Emma Brockes

* * * • • • IT’S NOT THAT I regret not having started out sooner. I’m not so lost as to believe that my younger self could have handled ...
( Category: Humor June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edmund White

Under Giono’s Hill is Frederic Tuten’s novel The Green Hour, a heterosexual love story set in Paris. Once I received from the New York Times Book Review a Tuten novel ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Alice Bolin

I was wandering Hollywood Forever again when I discovered the corner of the park dedicated to the Otis-Chandler family, the legendary owners of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison Gray Otis, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:Keach Hagey

Chapter 16 “This Is Crazy!” On Tuesday, August 22, 2006, Tom Freston, now a public company CEO, was taxiing onto the Van Nuys runway in Los Angeles in his new ...
( Category: Skills June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-11 | Author:Thomas O'Keefe

CHAPTER 10 In mid-January of 1998, we left on a six-week run that would send us out to the West Coast. This stretch of shows would take us back to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

X Two days later she sent me to Dubetchnya and I was unutterably delighted to go. As I walked towards the station and afterwards, as I was sitting in the ...
( Category: Ethnic & National June 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:David Lynch & Kristine McKenna

OFFERS FOR WORK weren’t pouring in after Blue Velvet. I did turn down one thing called Tender Mercies, which starred Robert Duvall and turned out to be a great film, ...
( Category: Memoirs June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Karolyn Smardz Frost

It may not be amiss to observe that the white emigrants from the United States retain all the prejudices here that they formerly had against coloured people in their native ...
( Category: Americas June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-27 | Author:William Roache

*** I trusted John completely. And he was to be a big part of everything that happened in the months to come. I’d met him years before he became my ...
( Category: Arts & Literature June 25,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Meghan Flaherty

Open embrace, at first, felt ostentatious. I was embarrassed by it, dancing two feet from my partner, all my movements naked and exposed. After an initial evaluation of ginger little ...
( Category: Memoirs June 25,2018 )