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Sally Bedell Smith

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Author of six biographies: Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch (Random House 2102); For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years (Random House 2007); Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House (Random House 2004); Diana In Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess (Random House 2004); Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman (Simon & Schuster, 1996); In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting (Simon & Schuster, 1990).
Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair since 1996.
Previously cultural news reporter for The New York Times, staff writer for TV Guide, and reporter-researcher for Time Magazine.
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Average rating: 3.81 · 8,348 ratings · 622 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
Elizabeth the Queen: The Li...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 7,561 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
Grace and Power: The Privat...
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions
Diana in Search of Herself:...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
For Love of Politics: Bill ...
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
Reflected Glory: The Life o...
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
In All His Glory: The Life ...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
Up the Tube
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1981
Elizabeth the Queen: Inside...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
For Love of Politics
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Sally Smith voted for Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch in Best History & Biography in the Final Round of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Sally Smith voted for Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch in Best History & Biography in the Opening Round of the 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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description: A best-selling biographer of public figures including the Clintons and the Kennedys, Smith draws on extensive research and interviews to portray Elizabeth II as both a monarch and a lively individual with a sense of humor. On the throne since she was twenty-five, the Queen has worked with twelve prime ministers and has weathered various personal storms in her sixty-year reign.
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“Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism.”
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed them privately in a touching letter to Queen Elizabeth in which he wondered if he deserved "all the good things which have happened to me," especially "to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly.”
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

“Philip revealed his carefully cloaked emotions when he wrote to his mother-in-law, "Cherish Lilibet? I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me." He declared that his new wife was "the only 'thing' in this world which is absolutely real to me, and my ambition is to weld the two of us into a new combined existence that will not only be able to withstand the shocks directed at us but will also have a positive existence for the good”
Sally Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

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