Alan Friedman: 13 books

"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for...

En ninguna nación occidental, en los últimos veinte años, un líder político ha dominado de forma tan completa la escena del modo en que lo ha hecho Berlusconi en Italia. Ningún otro ha encadenado tampoco tantas polémicas.  Alan Friedman vierte en este libro el retrato íntimo de...

" Je suis un séducteur-né. " Véritable événement mondial : Silvio Berlusconi a accepté de livrer ses mémoires à travers cet ouvrage. De son enfance dans les faubourgs de Milan pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale à son premier contrat immobilier, en passant par ses jeunes années...

What has happened to America, and what's become of the American dream? Behind the self-confident image of world's most influential country, we now see a nation tearing itself apart. The United States may be arguably the world's only superpower, but its internal tensions are a symptom of suffering...

“Friedman has drawn a vivid picture of the Times Square area and its denizens. He writes about the porn palaces with live sex shows, and the men and women who perform in them, prostitutes and their pimps, the runaways who will likely be the next decade's prostitutes, the clergymen who fight the...

Before there was real estate tycoon cum President-Elect Donald J. Trump, there was Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned prime minster who dominated Italian life for the past twenty years. In a candid, warts-and-all portrait of the leader who played hard in office and in private life....

Two leading economists discuss a range of issues relating to the "offshoring" of American jobs, from free trade to unemployment levels.

Isabel Archer, an insurance investigator in San Francisco, investigates her mothers death at Lockleigh Castle. Isabel suspects murder. Her mother offered to sell one kidney to Isabels anglophile uncle, a shady billionaire dying of kidney disease. Her uncle purchased Lockleigh Castle from Lord Warburton....

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during...

Hanna, 18, wants to take care of Harold, but Harold, 44, wants her mother to take her home, but Hanna stays with him, but she joins the Army to escape from him, but they eat pizza and get married, but twelve years of trying pass before Hanna gets pregnant, but Harold worries hell die during surgery for...

This third edition apprises users of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-Restructured Form (RF) for the ever-changing landscape of this dynamic personality/psychopathology instrument and its expanding utility in a variety of contexts. Two new chapters addressing the RC scales and the MMPI-2-RF are included in this...

The Cannibal painter, famous for chewing her canvases and leaving lovebites in the paint, recalls the comic years before dementia. When little Coco accidentally sliced the tip of her baby brothers pinky, she tasted it. When she saw Michelangelos DAVID naked on a calendar, she ate him. When she attended...

An American couple drives from Paris to Rome in a hearse. A baker in Paris chases a tourist with a breadknife. A shoe wanders from hotel to hotel. And a landlady shows her lodger with pride how she torments her pets. In the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a wife discovers to her horror that her blind husband can actually see Michelangelo’s frescoes.