Donald Spoto
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. In this brilliantlyresearched, thoughtful, and intimate biography, bestselling author Donald Spoto goes beyond the popular caricature—the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford’s memoir, Mommie Dearest—to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman,
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Draws on newly discovered transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial to offer insight into the factors that contributed to her remarkable achievements, the plausibility of the role of divinity in her mission to serve her country, and the factors that contributedto her discrediting and execution.
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Chronicles the life of actress Marilyn Monroe, drawing from her diaries, letters, and medical records and over 150 interviews to examine her personality and insecurities and describe her childhood in California, path to show business, film career, marriages and love affairs, and death.
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Born in England to socially ambitious parents, Elizabeth Taylor was catapulted into child stardom and molded by MGM into the great violet-eyed beauty of postwar America. Along the way, without training or counsel, she became an award-winning actress, dazzling audiences everywhere with spectacular performances. Spoto explores the gripping story of her brutalizing six-month marriage to compulsive gambler and hotel heir Nicky Hilton, her romances with...
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A multi-faceted portrait of the acclaimed actress follows Audrey Hepburn from her youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her rise to stardom in some of the eras most popular films, to her dedication to UNICEF, drawing on studio archives and interviews with friends, family, and colleagues to provide a full-scale study of her extraordinary career and often turbulent private life.
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"In Silence is an inquiry into the meaning, nature, history, quality, and effects of prayer, and considers particularly the various types of prayer that have engaged pilgrims of the spirit throughout the ages: prayer as petition, as forgiveness, as an expression of suffering, as abandonment, as serenity, as loving, as transformation, and as silence. It likewise considers the role of prayer in a number of different religions, both Western and Eastern,...