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Although he is best remembered for his classic westerns like Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Irish-American director John Ford (1895–1973) made 136 diverse films during his 51-year career, winning Oscars for The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Battle of Midway, and The Quiet Man. A master of psychological manipulation, Ford had a knack for goading brilliant performances out of his actors, albeit often through intimidation and verbal abuse. Dan Ford, John's grandson, draws on the director's personal archives and on intimate reminiscences from his family and friends - including John Wayne, whose acting career Ford had launched - Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and George O'Brien to produce the most complete and honest portrait ever written of the man and his astonishing output. Pappy was often cantankerous, irascible, and drunk and rarely made time for his family, but few who worked with him could resist his appealing energy. -
George VI symbolised the hardships, the achievements, the glorious hours of the backs-to-the-wall fighting in World War II and the new horizons of inventions and discovery he made available to his people. He was in every sense a gentle-man, whose simple humanity and devotion to duty earned him the deepest and most sincere respect and affection throughout the world. This volume is a fabulous pictorial record with almost 200 photos and camera studies of George VI's childhood, his time as the Duke of York, the funeral of George V, the Coronation, world tours, the war years, the then-Princess Elizabeth's wedding, State occasions and glimpses of intimate Royal lives together with extracts of his speeches. Includes a Tribute by the then-Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Winston Churchill. -
Richard Goldstein was the respected voice of popular culture, sex, and politics of the 60s and 70s. Most important of all he was the voice of the music scene in all its newness and vitality, as Goldstein discovered it - from The Shangri-Las, The Rolling Stones and The Lovin' Spoonful to Mama Cass, Ravi Shankar, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane and The Beatles. This was the era of irreversible change in society, from one end to the other. All the rules were broken and it's all recorded here, in Goldstein's 'scrapbook'. -
This book about the disaster of A.D. 79 is concerned with the impact of Pompeii's rediscovery as well as an introduction to the various excavated sites for those new to this vast and ancient Roman time capsule. Not only Pompeii is of interest here - Herculaneum and other small towns nearby that were overwhelmed in the catastrophe are also covered. Illustrated with beautiful colour and black and white artistic representations of ancient Roman life inspired by the rediscovery in 1748 as well as photographs of perfectly preserved artifacts. -
This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life and brilliant career, Donald Spoto also explores the roots of the director's obsessions with blondes, food, murder, and idealised love - and he traces the incomparable, bizarre genius from Hitchcock's English childhood through the golden years of his career in America as one of the greatest directors in the history of film making. With black and white photographs. -
During World War II, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer directed the building of the atom bomb; soon afterwards he became the U.S. government's top adviser on nuclear policy. Yet in December 1953 he was suspended as a security risk by President Eisenhower. The charges: close association with Communists and obstructing development on the hydrogen bomb. Was Oppenheimer unfit to be trusted by the country he had served with such distinction? Or was he a victim of Senator Joe McCarthy's infamous anti-communist witch-hunt and of the many enemies he had made in political, scientific and military circles? After a lengthy and detailed enquiry into Oppenheimer's past, the charges against him were upheld by the Atomic Energy Commission. But the verdict only intensified public misgivings about the secret hearing. The author, former Prime Minster of England John Major, made an exhaustive examination of all the sources and has produced a penetrating analysis of one of the most disturbing events in recent American history. -
Nene: Peter Fitzsimons
$9.00Nene King was the queen of the Australian magazine world. For over four years King increased the circulation of Woman's Day by 400,000 sales a week. No cheque was too large to write, no paparazzi shot too intrusive, no story too outrageous - so long as she could serve up the must-have stories for her readers. In the late 80s and into the 90s, if there was a scandal happening somewhere in the world, chances are that Woman's Day would have an exclusive - with photos. She took the magazine to the number one spot and she became on of Australia's most powerful women - feared by the stars, courted by politicians, Kerry Packer's confidante and Queen Bee of the celebritocracy. She was in the Beatles' motel room when they visited Australia; she arrived in London in time for the Summer of Love and lived in South East Asia during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War. She went all the way from interviewing a young housewife by the name of Hazel Hawke - to interviewing the same Hazel and paying her a king's ransom for her side of the break-up with Bob and along the way interviewed Mae West and met Princess Diana. Keeping hr going for 22 years was the great love of her live, Patrick Bowring. But on May 24, 1996, Nene's life changed forever. -
Lillian Beckwith serves up another delightful slice of Hebridean life and a collection of local characters. Meet Johnny Comic, Morag, Kirsty, Behag, Hector, Erchy and the postie - among others. Unique - and usually hilarious - events include tourists, an election, blizzards and a tinkers' wedding and every tale told with wit and affection. -
On the Hebridean island of Bruach, life among the crofters is as happy and full of humour as ever. Beckwith tells enchanting tales about the islanders' wit, their canny resourcefulness and their gossipy interest in outsiders. There is Flora and the fancy dress dance, beachcombing, whelk gathering, Highland cattle and a stag - among many other characters and animals. Based on Beckwith's own experiences.
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