false 56409 1 0 182233 0609805533 9780609805534 17 <![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928m/182233.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172512928s/182233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182233.Marilyn_Monroe 3.67 189 The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semiautobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.

But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the commie-busters hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyzes the Miller-Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, busts her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film.

This book has a woman's touch: it's a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo

]]> 56409 3.70 418 54 1998 392952 0743227492 9780743227490 11 <![CDATA[Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174406645m/392952.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174406645s/392952.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392952.Mrs_Kennedy_The_Missing_History_of_the_Kennedy_Years 3.79 52 Mrs. Kennedy will indelibly challenge our vision of this fascinating woman, and bring a new perspective to her crucial role in the Kennedy presidency.]]> 56409 3.70 418 54 2001 247921 4 <![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215785042m/247921.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215785042s/247921.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247921.Katharine_Hepburn 3.58 33 56409 3.70 418 54 1995 194297 0517079968 9780517079966 5 <![CDATA[If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215741186m/194297.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215741186s/194297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194297.If_This_Was_Happiness_A_Biography_of_Rita_Hayworth 3.72 29

From the Paperback edition.]]> 56409 3.70 418 54 1992 98190 081541286X 9780815412861 3 <![CDATA[Bette Davis: A Biography]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171407171m/98190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171407171s/98190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98190.Bette_Davis_A_Biography 3.77 22 56409 3.70 418 54 1992 1129670 0670528951 9780670528950 3 <![CDATA[Orson Welles: A Biography]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1129670.Orson_Welles_A_Biography 4.05 20 56409 3.70 418 54 1985 392950 0393051617 9780393051612 3 <![CDATA[Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174406644m/392950.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174406644s/392950.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392950.Jack_Kennedy_The_Education_of_a_Statesman 3.71 17 The enthralling, previously untold story of the friendships and forces that shaped the Kennedy presidency.

In the summer of 1938 a tall, raw-boned Harvard student arrived in London, where his father was the American ambassador and his favorite sister, Kick, had gained entrée to a closed group of young aristocrats. In the run-up to World War II, as Winston Churchill called on a reluctant Britain to resist Adolf Hitler before it was too late, Jack Kennedy formed bonds of friendship and family that would forever change his life and the course of American history.

Drawing on many new primary sources, this book is the first to trace the dramatic arc of Kennedy's intellectual and political formation, and to detail the goals of his presidency as he saw them. For the first time we get an intimate picture of a leader torn between politics and principle, a president wrestling with private demons and unresolved conflicts dating back to the 1930s, when Churchill and Ambassador Joseph Kennedy were adversaries on the public stage. 24 pages of photographs.]]> 56409 3.70 418 54 2006 778189 0671249851 9780671249854 0 <![CDATA[Polanski]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/778189.Polanski 4.00 1 56409 3.70 418 54 1982 7377424 0641997698 9780641997693 0 <![CDATA[Jack Kennedy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7377424-jack-kennedy 0.0 0 56409 3.70 418 54 3251886 0.0 0 0 2006 6469787 2702890989 0 <![CDATA[Mrs Kennedy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6469787-mrs-kennedy 0.0 0 56409 3.70 418 54 209291 4.38 8 1 2004