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America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
Category: Music
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times by John L. Williams
Category: Biography
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
America's Mistress - The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt by John L. Williams
Category: Biography Memoir
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends and ad ...Show more
CLR James - A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L. Williams
Category: Biography | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, inspired Kwame Nkrumah, and ...Show more
Miss Shirley Bassey by John L. Williams
Category: Music
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from an exploitative revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest star ...Show more
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