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Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this much anticipated memoir, the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John-and half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music-shares, for the first time, his own account of their adventures, transporting readers across the decades and around the world.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sparked by long-forgotten gifts and memorabilia discovered in an old trunk, the now ninety-year-old Hill reminisces about private moments, shared laughs, and crazy adventures with one of the world's most iconic women during her time as First Lady, and the excruciating year following the assassination of her husband. After all, he notes that 'when you travel with someone, you experience things that can't be fully appreciated by anyone who wasn't there'"--...
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, and getting away with doing the bare minimum at work"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman's...
6) Enough
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House.
Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blood Brothers documents the unlikely friendship between Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, tracing the events of their brief but important collaboration during Cody's 1880s Wild West Show, the impact of Little Big Horn, and Sitting Bull's assassination in 1890.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 329 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top positions in the administration as White House press secretary and communications director, while at the same time acting as First Lady Melania Trump's communications director and eventually chief of staff. Few members of the Trump inner circle served longer or were as close to the first family as Stephanie Grisham, and few had her unique insight...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
580 pages. illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person do?"--and a call for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our politics and daily lives. The Education of an Idealist traces Power's distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency, including being at his side when he died and subsequently facing the challenge-and great honor-of being in charge of his state funeral. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW is a vibrant behind-the-scenes look into the ups and downs of heading up the office of a former president by one of the people who knew him best....
14) My father's son
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1969, c1968
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
235 p. [4] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast. Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody's paying attention?...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama's trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who 'got' him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team on...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facts and Fears Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting...