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Intimate Strangers

Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous

by Bill Zehme
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009

Schwarzenegger intimidates. Sharon Stone strips. Leno and Letterman duel. In twenty years of raw and raucous celebrity profiles Irreverently bold journalist Bill Zehme has long been celebrated for his ability to get under the skins of our most elusive icons, from the evasive Warren Beatty to...
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I.M.

A Memoir

by Isaac Mizrahi
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit and wryness as the designs he popularized.” —Vanity Fair Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot...
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The Time of Their Lives

The Golden Age of Great American Book Publishers, Their Editors, and Authors

by Al Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

A lively portrait of mid-twentieth-century American book publishing—“A wonderful book, filled with anecdotal treasures” (The New York Times). According to Al Silverman, former publisher of Viking Press and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the golden age of book publishing began...
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by Alan Brinkley
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of...
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by Tina Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017

Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, Amazon.com, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary...
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JELL-O Girls

A Family History

by Allie Rowbottom
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018

A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories. A New York Times Editors' Choice One of People Magazine's Best...
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Good Times, Bad Times

The Explosive Inside Story of Rupert Murdoch

by Harold Evans
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011

A renowned journalist’s “vivid” account of his battle with Murdoch after the global media baron bought the Times of London (Chicago Tribune).   In 1981, Harold Evans was the editor of one of Britain’s most prestigious publications, the Sunday Times, which had thrived under his watch....
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Truth and Duty

The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power

by Mary Mapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006

A riveting account of how the public's right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter -- the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally...
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Avid Reader

A Life

by Robert Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
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The Innovators

How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. What were the talents...
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The Teapot Dome Scandal

How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

by Laton McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008

Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot Dome. In...
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Tim Cook

The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

by Leander Kahney
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

Journalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living...
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by Tracy Kidder
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011

Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Kidder memorably records the drama, comedy, and excitement of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the...
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Hatching Twitter

A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political...
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