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Marilyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer
Category: Biography
"Genius". ("The New York Times"). In 1973, Norman Mailer published "Marilyn", his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was immediately acclaimed - and an enduring bestseller, rumoured to have sold more copies than any of hi ...Show more
Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer; Bert Stern (Photographer)
Category: Art and Design
Three legends: Monroe by Mailer and Stern "This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original t ...Show more
Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer
Category: Art and Design
American beauty. Marilyn's legend and legacy captured by two journalistic greats. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary "Last Sitting" - widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken - to create a fitting tribute to the woma ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: PMC: An Informal History of the Republican and democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's ineffectual vice president, Hubert Humphrey ...Show more
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
Category: Classic Fiction
This is the definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer. From his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year ...Show more
Moonfire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 by Norman Mailer
Category: Art and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a budget of billions, the most powerful rocket ever launched brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer; Bert Stern (Photographer)
Category: Art and Design
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn.Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer''s original text with Bert Stern''s photographs from the ...Show more
Norman Mailer: MoonFire, 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
Category: Art and Design
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of ...Show more
Norman Mailer. Neil Leifer. Howard L. Bingham. the Fight by Norman Mailer; J. Michael Lennon; Neil Leifer (Photographer); Howard L. Bingham (Photographer)
Category: Sports and Hobbies
On October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to confront each other in an epic match. One was Muhammad Ali, who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was volubl ...Show more
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer by J. Michael (EDT) Norman; Lennon Mailer
Category: Biography