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Against the Wind - Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009 by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography
From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism. "Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro's profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senat ...Show more
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler
Category: Film & Tv
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history, this "wonderful history of the golden age of the movie moguls" (Chicago Tribune ) is a provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion pictur ...Show more
Barbara Streisand by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny ...Show more
Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives
An enthralling appreciation of the monumentally gifted popular artist and cultural icon who challenged Hollywood's standards of beauty and glamour Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "on ...Show more
Catching the Wind - Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 by Neal Gabler
Category: History
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * "One of the truly great biographies of our time."--Sean Wilentz, New York Times bestselling author of Bob Dylan in America and The Rise of American Democracy "A landmark study of Washington power politics in the twentieth century in the Robert Caro tradition."--Douglas Br ...Show more
Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler
Category: Film
"A thoughtful, in places chilling, account of the way entertainment values have hollowed out American life." --"The New York Times Book Review" From one of America's most original cultural critics and the author of Winchell, the story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, glamour, and melo ...Show more
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography
Seven years in the making and meticulously researched, here is the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in American entertainment and cultural history. From the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood to the visionary whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of ...Show more
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography Memoir
His classic films illuminated everyone's childhood. The theme parks are on every tourist itinerary. The movie empire is one of Hollywood's biggest players. Walt Disney is one of the few men who unquestionably changed our culture. Neal Gabler is the first author to have had complete access to the Disney ...Show more
Walt Disney - The biography by Neal Gabler
Category: Biography Memoir
His classic films illuminated everyone's childhood. The theme parks are on every tourist itinerary. The movie empire is one of Hollywood's biggest players. Walt Disney is one of the few men who unquestionably changed our culture.Neal Gabler is the first author to have had complete access to the Disney A ...Show more
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