Tom Sancton: 3 books
Death of a Princess
The True Story Behind Diana's Tragic End
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
For the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, a new, updated edition of the headline-grabbing New York Times bestseller that told the definitive story of how the Princess of Wales lost her life in a high-speed car accident in the heart of Paris on August 31, 1997.
What really happened on...
The Bettencourt Affair
The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what...
Song for My Fathers
A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a
consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging
black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era.
Contemporaries of Louis Armstrong, most of them had played in local
obscurity until Preservation Hall launched...