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Hardcover - 288 pages (March 4, 1999)

St Martins Pr (Trade)

ISBN: 0312240910

Dimensions Not available

Jordana Moskowitz, the Biographies editor at Amazon.com writes:

A Bestseller: "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley"

Hardcover - 768 pages (January 1999)

Little Brown & Company

ISBN: 0316332224

Dimensions (in inches): 1.83 x 9.78 x 6.36

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Another Bestseller: "Crazy Horse"

Hardcover - 160 pages (January 1999)

Viking Pr

ISBN: 0670882348

Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x 7.83 x 5.47

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For years Mother Teresa has appeared at the top of every list of the world's most influential women, in company with the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Different in almost every respect from those famous women, she did share one important quality: she was a star. In "Mother Teresa", biographer Kathryn Spink goes beyond her subject's public persona to examine the life of a modern-day saint. In the course of tracing Mother Teresa's life--from her birth in Albania to her years in Ireland and then India with the Loreto Sisters to the founding of her own order, the Missionaries of Charity--Spink explores the ramifications of her subject's life and work on the lives of those she labored for and with.

Mother Teresa's frail appearance belied the steely will and public relations savvy she brought to the task of loosening potential donors' purse strings and attracting attention to her cause. Was Mother Teresa a kind of spiritual colonialist, as critics have charged, more interested in helping the poor die in a state of grace than in changing the conditions in which they lived? Spink discusses this and other thorny questions with grace and honesty, at the same time emphasizing her subject's admirable achievements.

Paperback - 306 pages (September 1998)

Harper San Francisco

ISBN: 0062515535

Dimensions (in inches): 0.82 x 7.98 x 5.34

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When Charles Lindbergh stepped out of the "Spirit of St. Louis" and onto Le Bourget airfield on May 21, 1927, he had become, literally overnight, the most famous man in the world. Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota spent the rest of his life in the glare of a not-always-approving media spotlight. Berg explores Lindbergh's life and assesses the historic impact of its tragedies and triumphs in "Lindbergh".

Hardcover - 624 pages (September 1998)

Putnam Pub Group

ISBN: 0399144498

Dimensions (in inches): 1.97 x 9.36 x 6.47

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Some say that John D. Rockefeller Sr. was the Bill Gates of the 19th century. They have it somewhat backwards: a century before Windows, John D. Rockefeller controlled 90 percent of America's oil industry. And if you thought a Justice Department probe was tough, try going up against a muckraking investigation led by Theodore Roosevelt. Ron Chernow's "Titan" offers rich new insights into how the world's first billionaire amassed his fortune.

Hardcover - 832 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1998)

Random House

ISBN: 0679438084

Dimensions (in inches): 1.95 x 6.61 x 9.54

Jordana Moskowitz, the Biographies editor at Amazon.com writes:

When Michael Holroyd published the first part of his masterful, four-volume biography of George Bernard Shaw in 1988, the New York Times declared that "there should be no need for another biography of him for perhaps a century...." This single-volume edition of "Bernard Shaw" offers readers a concise version of the longer work that is both rich in detail and manageable in size.

Hardcover - 704 pages 1 edition (September 1998)

Random House

ISBN: 0375500499

Dimensions (in inches): 2.08 x 9.64 x 6.62

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Historian Alison Weir writes highly readable biographies of England's early royals. In "The Life of Elizabeth I", she expertly combines fascinating details about the Tudor queen's everyday life and larger historical issues to create a rich view of her subject.

Hardcover - 656 pages 1 edition (September 1998)

Ballantine Books (Trd)

ISBN: 0345405331

Dimensions (in inches): 2.08 x 9.64 x 6.62

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If the Kennedys are America's royal family, then John F. Kennedy was the nation's crown prince. Magnetic, handsome, and charismatic, his perfectly coifed image overshadowed the successes and failures of his presidency, and his assassination cemented his near-mythological status in American culture and politics. Struck down in his prime, he represented the best and the brightest of America's future, and when he died, part of the nation's promise and innocence went with him. That, at least, is the public version of the story.

The private version, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, is quite different. His meticulous investigation of Kennedy has revealed a wealth of indiscretions and malfeasance, ranging from frequent liaisons with prostitutes and mistresses to the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro to involvement in organized crime. Based on interviews with former Kennedy administration officials, former Secret Service agents, and hundreds of Kennedy's personal friends and associates, "The Dark Side of Camelot" rewrites the history of John F. Kennedy and his presidency.

Paperback (September 1998)

Back Bay Books

ISBN: 0316360678

Dimensions (in inches): 1.45 x 8.20 x 5.48

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Fiction is full of master criminals, from Sherlock Holmes's arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, to spymaster George Smiley's mysterious foe, Karla. In "The Napoleon of Crime", however, reality far outstrips fiction in the person of Adam Worth, a Victorian thief who formed a criminal network that stretched from New York to London, Paris, and even South Africa. Ben Macintyre has written an absorbing biography of this unusual man--a criminal who hated violence, ran his crime syndicate like a family business, and was unswervingly loyal to his employees. Bank raids, safecracking, and train robberies provided the American-born Worth the wherewithal to establish himself as Henry J. Raymond in 1870s London. A Mayfair gentleman by day, Worth continued his life of crime by night; at the pinnacle of his career, he stole a priceless portrait of the Duchess of Devon, which he kept-- at times under the mattress of his bed--for 20 years. Macintyre limns a delightful portrait of a fascinating man, a fellow Sherlock Holmes might have admired.

Paperback - 346 pages (August 1998)

Delta

ISBN: 0385319932

Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x 8.03 x 5.31

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