Category: Biography

A FASCINATING INSIDE LOOK AT ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN WOMEN IN AMERICAN POLITICS AS WE HAVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN HER She's a real-life American success story. Alaska's youngest governor . . . and the first woman. A small-town girl who wasn't content to keep things small.People magazine assistant editor Lorenzo Benet met with Sarah Palin and her family just weeks before the announcement that she would be the Republican vice-presidential nominee. In this groundbreaking biography, he shows us the real Sarah Palin--untouched by the cameras and the campaign trail. From her basketball games and beauty pag...
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Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo: A Biography

By: Benkovitz, Miriam J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons : January 1977

Seller ID: 30597

ISBN-13: 9780399120091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has some shelf wear and tanning, pages are in good shape.
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Mary Diana Dods, a gentleman and a scholar

By: Bennett, Betty T

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Morrow : January 1991

Seller ID: 124049

ISBN-13: 9780688087173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First edition. Dust jacket, boards, spine, and pages in good condition.
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Kate Remembered

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult : July 2003

Seller ID: 147176

ISBN-13: 9780399151644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Slight shelve wear on the cover
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Kate Remembered

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult : July 2003

Seller ID: 159413

ISBN-13: 9780399151644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century -- reigning as an admired actress, a beloved m ovie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time. In 1983--at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting--the four time Academy Award winner opened her door to biographer A. Scott Berg--then thirty-three--and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life. From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intende...
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Kate Remembered

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult : July 2003

Seller ID: 193149

ISBN-13: 9780399151644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century -- reigning as an admired actress, a beloved m ovie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time. In 1983--at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting--the four time Academy Award winner opened her door to biographer A. Scott Berg--then thirty-three--and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life. From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intende...
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Lindbergh

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Berkley : September 1999

Seller ID: 108831

ISBN-13: 9780425170410

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Even after twenty years, A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindberg remains "the definitive account" of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary figures. Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh--renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story," says the *Los Angeles Times Book Review, and this biog...
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Lindbergh

By: Berg, A. Scott

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult : September 1998

Seller ID: 159411

ISBN-13: 9780399144493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Name of previous owner inside cover
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The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader

By: Bergen, Peter

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Free Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 34256

ISBN-13: 9780743278911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

The author of 'Holy War, Inc.' draws on his personal meetings with Osama Bin Laden as well as interviews with some of his most intimate acquaintances, describing the terrorist's self-presentation as a soft-spoken cleric & offering insight into how he garners the fanatical loyalty of hundreds of thousands of followers.
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Ingrid Bergman: My Story

By: Bergman, Ingrid

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 171271

ISBN-13: 9780440032991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Jacket has wear from rubbing, and small tears. Book has writing and underlining throughout
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Capone: The Man and the Era

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : August 1994

Seller ID: 139053

ISBN-13: 9780671744564

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First edition by number code.
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf : October 2007

Seller ID: 75993

ISBN-13: 9781400043453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Former library copy with identifying labels only on inside of cover.
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Red: A Biography of Red Smith, The Life & Times of a Great American Writer

By: Berkow, Ira

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Times Books, a Division of Random House : May 1986

Seller ID: 159563

ISBN-13: 9780812912036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

dust jacket has shelf wear to egdes
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JFK Jr., George, & Me: A Memoir

By: Berman, Matt

Price: $5.01

Publisher: Gallery Books : September 2014

Seller ID: 174480

ISBN-13: 9781451697261

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

John Kennedy Jr.'s creative director for George magazine presents "a vivid portrait of JFK Jr. that only a select few have ever seen, offering a touching and honest tribute to John's legacy" (BookReporter.com). If George magazine was about "not just politics as usual," a day at the office with John F. Kennedy Jr. was not just business as usual. John handpicked Creative Director Matt Berman to bring his vision for a new political magazine to life. Through marathon nights leading up to George's launch; extraordinary meetings with celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, and Demi M...
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Thurber: A Biography

By: Bernstein, Burton

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Ballantine Books : February 1976

Seller ID: 52611

ISBN-13: 9780345248619

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

By: Bernstein, Carl

Price: $8.01

Publisher: Knopf : June 2007

Seller ID: 148880

ISBN-13: 9780375407666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Edges of dust jacket have shelf wear.
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Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life

By: Bill Minutaglio, W. Michael Smith

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs : November 2010

Seller ID: 44713

ISBN-13: 9781586489052

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courageous, and influential journalists in American history. Presidents and senators called her for advice; her column ran in 400 newspapers; her books, starting with Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, were bestsellers. But despite her fame, few people really knew her: what her background was, who influenced her, how her political views developed, or how many painful struggles she fought. Molly Ivins is a comprehensive, definitive narrative biography, ...
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