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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: 3.76 · 2,409 ratings · 291 reviews · 7 distinct works
Elizabeth the Queen: The Li...
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,930 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Grace and Power: The Privat...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 113 ratings6 editions
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For Love of Politics: Bill ...
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
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Reflected Glory: The Life o...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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In All His Glory: The Life ...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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Up the Tube
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981
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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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