Crown Archetype imprint: 296 books
Nicholson
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW BIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WITH ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC AND FASCINATING CAREERS—AND LIVES—IN HOLLYWOOD.
For five decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With twelve Oscar nominations to his credit and legendary roles in films like Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces,...
Loser Goes First
My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood—Jokerz. He doesn’t get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think...
Got to Give the People What They Want
True Stories and Flagrant Opinions from Center Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“I want to start conversations, and even better, arguments.” – From the Introduction
One of the most outspoken and original voices in sports sounds off while revealing his incredible life story.
Jalen Rose has never been quiet. Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the 70’s and...
We Got the Neutron Bomb
The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians...
by Roger Ebert
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made.
Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, wrote biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offered a fresh and...
by Jerry Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
This intimate, shocking—and thoroughly unauthorized—portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour.
From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric “innkeeper to the world” who built a global empire beginning with a fleabag in a dusty...
Life of the Party
The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
The incredible story of Brownie Wise, the Southern single mother—and postwar #Girlboss—who built, and lost, a Tupperware home-party empire
Before Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into a...
Both of Us
My Life with Farrah
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett. He was the handsome Academy Award–nominated star of Paper Moon and the classic romance Love Story. She was the beautiful, all-American Charlie’s Angel, whose poster adorned the bedroom walls of teenage boys everywhere. One of the most storied love affairs in Hollywood...
by John Cleese
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
John Cleese’s huge comedic influence has stretched across generations; his sharp irreverent eye and the unique brand of physical comedy he perfected with Monty Python, on Fawlty Towers, and beyond now seem written into comedy’s DNA. In this rollicking memoir, So, Anyway…, Cleese takes readers...
Memories Are Made of This
Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Deana Martin's captivating, heartfelt memoir of her father, Dean Martin
Charming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more than fifty...
Laura Bush
An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
When Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow in Barbara Bush’s footsteps? Would she be another Hillary Clinton?
“I think I’ll just be Laura Bush,” she...
This Time, This Place
My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with the nation reeling from the assassination of a beloved president and becoming embroiled in a far different...
I Just Graduated ... Now What?
Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The new go-to book of advice for graduates, with insightful advice from:
Eva Longoria
“Your degree is just a stepping-stone.”
John Legend
“It’s not wrong to be afraid.”
Bear Grylls
“The path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey.”
Andy...
Parcells
A Football Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the New...