Books 51 - 100 |
La mia settimana con
Marilyn |
|
Clark Colin
2012 |
In 1956, fresh from Oxford, the 23-year-old
Colin Clark (brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a
humble 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that
disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. This is the
story of when Clark escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the
pressures of stardom. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich
to summarise! Clark's extraordinary experiences on and off set have now
been turned into a major film starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne,
Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh and Dominic Cooper.
Italian version. |
La Vita Segreta di
J.Edgar Hoover |
|
Summers Anthony
1993 |
J.Edgar Hoover was FBI Director for almost 50
yrs [1924-1972 !!], working for 8 different US Presidents.. This book is
an unauthorized biography covering all secret aspects of his life.
Italian version. |
L'enigma della morte
di Marilyn Monroe |
|
Francesco Mari - Elisabetta
Bertol - Barbara Gualco
2010 |
Italian book.
Marilyn Monroe died in the night between 4th and 5th August of 1962 at
Los Angeles.
This book is an enquiry on the death of the most beautiful and
admired woman ever. The three authros are professors at University of
Florence. |
Libra |
|
De
Lillo Don
1988 |
Novel about JFK
Assassination.
Italian version. |
Lyndon Johnson & the
American Dream |
|
Kearns Doris
1976 |
Lyndon
Johnson - brilliant, formidable, generous, troubled - is captured in one
of the most revealing portraits of an American President ever written.
Rarely, if ever, has a public figure talked so intimately about his
personal and private life and thoughts as this President did to Miss
Kearns during the last five years of his life. |
Marilyn |
|
Signorini Alfonso
2010 |
Italian
book.
Marilyn's biography written from the Italian journalist Alfonso Signorini.
From the back cover : "Era questa la sua condanna : essere nata per amare
ed essere incapace di farlo". |
Marilyn |
|
Mailer Norman
2012 |
Italian
version.
An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe
(originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most
important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Mailer, the
winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, was the first writer to explore the
relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy. When first published, this
book was the subject of Time and Life magazine cover stories, was on The
New York Times Bestseller List and became a full selection of the Book of
the Month Club. |
Marilyn - Three
Volume Set Box |
|
De
Dienes Andre
2002 |
This is
Taschen Verlag's sumptuous, oversized (50x40 cm) three volume
anthology of Andre De Dienes photographs of early Marilyn Monroe. A 2002
first edition containing one hardbound book, one volume of magazine cover
reproductions and a facsimile of Marilyn's diary all housed in a facsimile
of Andre De Dienes' Kodak photographic paper box. |
Marilyn - The last
take |
|
Brown Peter Harry & Barham Patte B.
1992 |
This
book, based on thousands of newly discovered documents, hours of newly
available footage from her final film, and over 300 revealing new
interviews, is a detailed and astonishing account of what really happened
during the last fourteen weeks in the life of Hollywood's legendary sex
goddess. |
Marilyn among
friends |
|
Shaw Sam & Rosten Norman
1988 |
The photographer Sam Shaw introduced
Norman Rosten to Marilyn Monroe in 1955. Their relationship grew :
Marilyn's analyst, Dr Ralph Greenson, described Rosten as one of her
"closest friends". She married another of his friends, Arthur Miller, and
from then saw a great deal of Norman and his wife Hedda.
Photographer Sam Shaw met Monroe on the set of "Viva Zapata" when she was
an out-of-work contract player. Shaw was to take many famous photographs
of Marilyn, but he too became her friend and over many years took the kind
of photographs that only friends can.
As her closest friends, both the author and the photographer are uniquely
placed to reveal the real Marilyn. This book conveys its subject with
greater authority, candour and, above all, affection than any previous
book. |
Marilyn & Me
[Un memoir fotografico] |
|
Schiller Lawrence
2012 |
Italian
version.
An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with
Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary
photographs, some of which have never been published.
When he pulled
his station wagon into the 20th Century-Fox studios parking lot in Los
Angeles in 1960, twenty-three-year-old Lawrence Schiller kept telling
himself that this was just another assignment, just another pretty girl.
But the assignment and the girl were anything but ordinary. Schiller was a
photographer for Look magazine and his subject was Marilyn Monroe,
America's sweetheart and sex symbol. In this intimate memoir, Schiller
recalls the friendship that developed between him and Monroe while he
photographed her in Hollywood in 1960 and 1962 on the sets of Let's Make
Love and the unfinished feature Something's Got to Give, the last film she
worked on.
Schiller recalls Marilyn as tough and determined, enormously insecure as
an actress but totally self-assured as a photographer’s model. Monroe knew
how to use her looks and sexuality to generate publicity, and in 1962 she
allowed Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in over ten
years, which she then used as a weapon against a studio that wanted to
have her fired—and ultimately succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and
writes about was adept at hiding deep psychological scars, but she was
also warm and open, candid and disarming, a movie star who wished to be
taken more seriously than she was.
Accompanying the text are eighteen of the author’s own photographs, some
never previously published. Many writers have tried to capture her essence
on the page, but as someone who was in the room, a young man Marilyn could
connect with and trust, Schiller gives us a unique look at the real woman
offscreen. |
Marilyn Monroe |
|
Leaming Barbara
1998 |
Barbara
Leaming's book is a complex, sympathetic
portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon
of American sexuality.
Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling
portrait of a woman at the centre of a drama with immensely high stakes, a
drama in which some of the other players are some of the most fascinating
characters from the worlds of movies, theatre and politics. |
Marilyn Monroe -
La Vita, il Mito |
|
Mercurio G. - Petricca S.
1995 |
Wonderful book about the
Life and the Myth of Marilyn Monroe.
Italian version. |
Marilyn Monroe -
L'eterno mito della bellezza |
|
Verlhac Anne
2007 |
This is the Italian
version of the book "Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures".
This book brings together all of the most iconic images of the
legendary bombshell. Glamorous shots by celebrity photographers mix with
casual snapshots and childhood portraits to span Marilyn's luminous but
too-short life. Hundreds of evocative images, both lush and poignant, are
interwoven with quotations by and about Marilyn to create an elegant
collective portrait like no other. Aesthetically arresting throughout,
this volume illuminates the life of a legend, both onscreen and off. |
Marilyn Monroe -
Unseen Archives |
|
Clayton Marie
2003 |
Even many years after her
death, Marilyn Monroe is still one of the greatest legends of the
twentieth century. This book cahrts Marilyn's fascinating life, from her
unhappy childhood, through her years as a superstar, to her tragic and
untimely death in 1962. The collection of photographs documents the
important events in her life. |
Marilyn Monroe
[Tesori e Ricordi di una diva che incanto' il mondo] |
|
Glatzer Jenna
2008 |
Italian Version of "The
Marilyn Monroe Treasures" book.
With her ineffable combination of girlish innocence, glamorous sex appeal,
and palpable presence on the silver screen, Marilyn Monroe bears an
unmatched legacy marked by beauty, style, and mystique. This book, both a
compelling biographical narrative and a collector’s delight, is a unique
and meaningful addition to the Marilyn library. Featuring a number of
unseen photographs, such as a soldier’s snapshots of Marilyn entertaining
the troops in Korea, as well as many unpublished pieces of memorabilia,
including an exquisite watercolor rose that Marilyn painted as a gift for
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday, this book is a lavishly illustrated
feast of beautiful imagery and ephemera from the life of one of the
world’s most beloved stars. |
Marilyn Monroe &
Arthur Miller |
|
Maerker Christa
1997 |
Italian Version.
This is the story of the relationship between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur
Miller, who met for the first time in 1951 and married on June 29 1956. |
Marilyn Monroe
Films - Set 1 |
|
DVD |
Set with 7 Marilyn's movie
(italian version) :
1. Fermata d'autobus
2. Niagara
3. Gli uomini preferiscono le bionde
4. A qualcuno piace caldo
5. La magnifica preda
6. La tua bocca brucia
7. The final day |
Marilyn Monroe
Films - Set 2 |
|
DVD |
Set with 6 Marilyn's movie
(italian version) :
1. Come sposare un milionario
2. Follie dell'anno
3. Quando la moglie è in vacanza
4. Gli spostati
5. Il magnifico scherzo
6. Facciamo l'amore
|
Marilyn Monroe -
Bye Bye Baby |
|
CD-Audio |
CD with
14 songs from Marilyn Monroe:
1. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. 2. Bye bye baby. 3.When love goes
wrong nothing goes right. 4.You'd be surprised. 5.One silver dollar. 6.The
river of no return. 7.After you get what you want, you don't want it.
8.Specialisation. 9.Heat wave. 10.Kiss. 11.She acts like a woman should.
12.I'm gonna file my claim. 12 Lazy. 14. Anyone can see I love you.
|
Martin Luther
King - "I have a dream" |
|
DVD |
Italian
DVD, focused on the speech "I have a dream" from Martin Luther King in
Washington on August 29,1963, less than 3 months before JFK was
assassinated.
|
Milton's Marilyn |
|
Kotsilibas-Davis James
1998 |
Marilyn Monroe's
confidante, business partner, artistic consultant and dear friend, Milton
H.Greene was also one of his era's most sought after celebrity
photographers. His proximity to Marilyn enabled him to capture images of
her in poses and attitudes inaccessible to the hundreds of other
photographers who pursued this engaging beauty. Now available for the
first time in a mini-hardcover edition, the photographs in this rich and
dynamic volume comprise what are undoubtedly the most remarkable portraits
ever taken of Marilyn Monroe. |
My Story |
|
Exner Judith
1977 |
For 15
yrs, Judith Exner kept a tight lid on her secret love affair with John
F.Kennedy in the White House - until a Senate investigation smeared the
story across the nation's front pages. In 1977 Mrs Exner, after years of
FBI harassment, broke her silence with this book, revealing her story -
tender, intimate and unvarnished - of a passionate romance between a
stunningly beautiful Los Angeles girl and the charismatic President of the
United States, and of her close ties to Mafia chieftain Sam Giancana.
Special thanks to Yaacov (Itsyourturn.com) who sent me this book. |
My week with
Marilyn |
|
Clark Colin
2011 |
In 1956, fresh from Oxford, the 23-year-old
Colin Clark (brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a
humble 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that
disastrously united Laurence Olivier with Marilyn Monroe. This is the
story of when Clark escorted a Monroe desperate to escape from the
pressures of stardom. How he ended up sharing her bed is a tale too rich
to summarise! Clark's extraordinary experiences on and off set have now
been turned into a major film starring Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne,
Judi Dench, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh and Dominic Cooper. |
Nixon - A Life |
|
Aitken Jonathan
1993 |
The
rise, fall and rebirth of Richard Nixon is perhaps the most fascinating
story in American politics. Presidential chronicles and other outside
sources have tried to capture it in full, but "Nixon: A life" is the first
to succeed.
This book is the first entirely objective biography of Richard Nixon.
Jonathan Aitken conducted over sixty hours of interviews with Nixon and
was granted unprecedented access to thousands of pages of Nixon's
previously sealed private documents. |
Our Man in Haiti
[George de
Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic] |
|
Mellen Joan
2012 |
"Our
Man in Haiti" is a harrowing journey into the belly of the beast.
Following the trail of George de Mohrenschildt, an obscure character
lurking in the shadow of the JFK Assassination, Joan Mellen uncoversthe
CIA's destructive machinations in Haiti from the 1950s until today.
Signed book from author, when I met her in Dallas in November 2013. |
Passion for Truth |
|
Specter Arlen
2001 |
From
finding JFK's Single Bullet to questioning Anita Hill to impeaching
Clinton.
In thus brutally honest book, Senator Specter analyzes these and other
controversies, assessing each through both a legal and historical lens.
Throughout, he tells the truth, naming names, identifying where the system
worked and where it failed - and even admitting to his own mistakes. Arlen
Specter brings all these events to life, taking the reader into the
courtroom, the cloakroom, and the Senate Chamber, and offers a clear and
honest vision for reforming the way Main Street and Wall Street are
governed. |
Path to War
[He
promised Peace. But chose War] |
|
DVD
Frankenheimer John
2001 |
As the
successor to a martyred President, Lyndon B.Johnson sought to transform
America into a "Great Society" of equal opportunity. Instead, he became
the symbol of the most unpopular war in U.S. history.
Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland and Alec Baldwin star in a compelling
drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams, set inside the LBJ White
House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam. |
President John
F.Kennedy and the Berlin Wall |
|
Peter M.Olsen
2017 |
Novel written by Peter
M.Olsen.
As written in his preface note "This story is part fictional, part
historical fact and part non-fictional narrative". |
Presidential
Campaign TV Ads - VolI - 1952-1964 |
|
AA.VV.
DVD |
22 Commercials selling
Candidates for the Presidency
On one hour long DVD Video |
Presidents |
|
Kochmann Rachel M.
2003 |
A picturial guide of
Presidents' Birthplaces, Homes and Burial sites, including Presidential
Libraries. |
Presidents and
Famous Americans |
|
AA.VV.
1968 |
Volume 12 of "The American
Heritage Book of Presidents and Famous Americans", dedicated to John
F.Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. |
Qui a tue' le
President? |
|
Jean-Pierre Pecau, Fred Duval and Fred
Blanchard.
2011 |
Jour J
is an French Alternate History graphic novel series co-authored by
Jean-Pierre Pécau, Fred Duval and Fred Blanchard. Each volume is
stand-alone and explores a different counterfactual scenario, depicting
how history could have turned out some years after the point of
divergence.
Volume 5, Qui a tué le Président? (Who killed the President?) takes
place in 1973, 13 years after Richard Nixon won the presidential election
against John Kennedy and is beginning his fourth term. |
Remembering
America
[A voice from the Sixties] |
|
Richard N. Goodwin
1989 |
An advicer and
speechwriter in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Richard N.Goodwin
was an intimate collegue and friend of the leading public figures of the
day - John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy - and
an active participant in national politics. After the hardships of the1960
presidential campaign, he helped form the new Kennedy administration,
conceived the Alliance for Progress and after the assassination of the
President he was among the very few Kennedy men invited by Lyndon Johnson
to join his circle of advicers.
Goodwin originated the Great Society concept, and in this memoir he
portrays the master politician at closest range.
The alarming deterioration of Johnson's mind and spirit, and the
acceleration of the war in Vietnam, led Goodwin to break with the Johnson
administration and join Eugene McCarthy in New Hamshire in a
campaign to end that war. A dramatic chroncile of Goodwin's journey
through the sixties, "Remebering America" is a memoir of the hopes,
dreams and ideals of an extraordinary decade and of the inspiring men and
women who sought to realze them. |
Sette giorni a Maggio |
|
Knebel Fletcher & Bailey Vharles W. II
1963 |
Italian version of
the novel "SEVEN DAYS IN MAY", written in 1962 during JFK Presidency.
"Seven Days in May" is an authentic classic political thriller of the
first rank. Authors Baily and Knebel present a scenario in which an
unpopular President is targeted by America's top military brass for an
actual military takeover of the government. The story is complex, but
vividly presented with an authenticity that is both disturbing and
plausible. The reader is brought to understand that it could happen here,
and the story suggests how such a scenario could come about in these
United States.
The novel is well-written and fast-paced, never drags, and absolutely
holds the reader's interest throughout. The amazing thing about the story
is that every bit of it hangs together without straining the reader's
sense of credulity. The novel features excellent writing, and the authors
weave the plot together towards a conclusion that is startling and
believable.
This was a big budget movie in the 1960s featuring Kirk Douglas and Burt
Lancaster. |
Shooting Kennedy :
JFK and the culture of images |
|
Lubin David M.
2003 |
David
Lubin is Professor of Art at Wake Forest University.
In this book he speculates on the iconic images of the
Kennedys, using them to illuminate the entire American cultural landscape.
He draws from a spectacularly varied intellectual and visual terrain to
show how the public came to identify personally with the Kennedys and how,
in so doing, they came to understand their place in the world. |
Taking Charge -
The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 |
|
Beschloss Michael R.
1997 |
This
book, edited by Michael R.Beschloss, whom "Newsweek" has called "America's
leading presidential historian", brings you into the room with an American
political legend, still hated and revered a quarter century after his
death. We hear Lyndon Johnson as he schemes and blusters, rewards and
punishes, tells tales of Washington,D.C., and Texas, and reveals a bedrock
core of unshakable political beliefs.
The only President to record his private conversation from his first day
in office, LBJ ordered the pates to be locked in a vault until year 2023.
But new they have been unsealed, providing a close-up look at a President
taking power such as we have never done before. |
Texas in the
Morning |
|
Duncan Brown Madeleine
1997 |
Madeleine Duncan Brown fills in a huge gap in our understanding of
President Lyndon Baines Johnson with whom she had a long-term love affair.
Johnson was one of the most complex figures in American history and the
often severe conflict in his character and actions makes him most
difficult to understand. |
The Accidental President
[The
Electio Year Blockbuster on LBJ] |
|
Robert Sherrill
1968 |
From
back cover:
"Never has an American President ridden such a roller-coaster of
popularity as has Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Sometimes LBJ's rating is up, sometimes it's down, but always the result
is that a shocking proportion of the American people are not behind their
President.
Why? What has appened to this countr's feeling about the Presidency?
THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT gives a vetern reporter's anser, in a stinging
survey of LBJ's life and career, a book that has already raised a storm of
rage and praise - a book that must be read in this crucial election
year(1968)." |
The Adamses
1735-1918 - America's First Dinasty |
|
Brookhiser Richard
2002 |
The
Adamses were America's longest dynasty, the closest thing to a royal
family USA has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's
affairs for nearly two centuries - from John, the self-taught lawyer who
rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to John
Quincy, the child prodigy who followed his father to the White House and
fought slavery in Congress; to Charles Francis, the Civil War diplomat: to
Henry, the brilliant scholar and journalist. Indeed, the history of the
Adams family can be read as the history of America itself.
|
The Assassins |
|
Donovan Robert J.
1962 |
Robert
John Donovan (August 21, 1912-August 8, 2003) was a Washington
correspondent, author and presidential historian. He was the author of
"PT-109" book.
He published in 1962 this book "The Assassins" about seven men who made
decisions to kill US Presidents : three succeeded, four failed, all died
themselves. Here are the fascinating, almost unbelievable stories of these
men.
The following year, 1963, L.H.Oswald killed President J.F.Kennedy. |
The Awful Grace of God
[Religious Terrorism, White Supremacy and the unsolved murder of Martin
Luther King Jr] |
|
Wexler Stuart and Hancock Larry
2012 |
This
book chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr by a
group of the nation's most violent right-wing extremist. Impeccably
researched and thoroughly documented, this book examines a network of
racist militants who were united in a holy cause to kill King.
"The Awful Grace of God" offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date
study of the king assassination and presents a roadmap for future
investigation. |
The Battler with
JFK and Other Individuals of Note |
|
Fay Paul B. "Red" Jr
2003 |
The
book is about Paul B.Fay (Red's father) who had six children and twenty
two grandchildren. He took his family to the Olympic Games in Berlin in
1936. He owned and operated a heavy construction company called The Fay
Improvement Company, was generous to a fault and loved his gold game. He
was influential in the growth of San Francisco and served as President of
the wonderful Pacific Union Club.
There are sixty-three chapters in the book which highlights his encounters
with the following individuals : Jack Kennedy, Bob McNamara,
Bobby Kennedy, Rowland Evans, Ethel Kennedy, Ambassador
Joseph Kennedy,Charles Lindbergh, Byron "Whizzer" White, Jesse Owens,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Brinkley and
General Dwight Eisenhower, to name a few.
Paul B."Red" Fay Jr wrote the best selling book "The Pleasure of His
Company", that chronicles his personal friendship with John F.Kennedy
dating back to their time in P.T. Boats in the Pacific in World War II.
|
The complete
Marilyn Monroe |
|
AA.VV.
DVD |
A collection of newsreel
stories (B&W-28 minutes).
A collection of trailers for Marilyn's films (B&W/Color 45 minutes).
A complete collection of Marilyin Monroe's studio performances (24 songs). |
The day Lincoln
was shot |
|
Bishop Jim.
1983 |
This book is the complete
record of the dramatic events that occurred on the day Mr Lincoln was shot
in Ford's Theatre : the chapters start at 7 AM, April 14,1865 and close at
7AM, April 15, 1865. The book opens with the President emerging from
his bedroom, worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead, and ends
with the Surgeon General placing two silver dollars on the President's
eyelids. |
The Fog of War |
|
Morris Errol
DVD
2003 |
**Academy Award Winner -
2003 Best Documentary Feature**
Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President
Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and
influencial political figures of the 20th century. Now -for the first time
ever - he sits down one on one with award-winning director Errol Morris to
offer a candid and intimate journey through some of the most seminal
events in contemporary American history. |
The Innocent Man
Script : Cui Bone - To Whose Advantage? |
|
Durham T.Mack
2000 |
Novel about JFK Assassination and
Lee Harvey Oswald. |
The Kennedy
Assassination |
|
Jensen J.Arthur
2000 |
A historical novel by J.Arthur
Jensen. |
The Kennedy
Plan
[A play] |
|
Jensen J.Arthur
2019 |
In this play of historical fiction,
J.Arthur Jensen presents the story of Joseph Kennedy's service as
Ambassador to England prior to and during the early months of World War
II. This dramatization illustrates that negotiation rather than military
conflict might have been used to address the Nazi threat.
In 1938, with tensions rising in Europe, President Franklin
Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy to be the United States Ambassador
to the Court of St. James with instructions to support efforts to maintain
the peace. Kennedy learned that much of the political tension was rooted
in Nazi anger over the Treaty of Versailles-- the treaty which twenty
years earlier had concluded the Great War. After he assessed the political
choices, Kennedy supported Prime Minister Chamberlain's effort to maintain
European peace by allowing the re-unification of the German people of the
Sudetenland with Nazi Germany but he realized that the key to long term
European peace was to create a mechanism for legal migration of Jews out
of Germany. Kennedy lobbied for a plan which had been previously explored
by British and American diplomats: allow Jewish migration to multiple
different countries. Christened "the Kennedy Plan" by the press, the plan
quickly brought condemnation from non-Jews who did not want new Jewish
immigration and from Jews who favored only immigration to Palestine. As
Hitler demonstrated the power of his new Luftwaffe and German Panzers,
Kennedy urged negotiation and compromise. Voices to maintain peace were
overwhelmed by voices for war and we are left to wonder if the Nazi threat
was handled properly by the governments of the west. Might negotiation
have avoided the massive loss of life that resulted from the Second World
War? |
The Last Days of
Marilyn Monroe |
|
Wolfe Donald H.
1998 |
Donald H.Wolfe has written a
startling portrait of the twentieth century's greatest film star that not
only redefines her place in entertainment history but also reveals what
the author thinks have been the secret conspiracy that surrounded her
during her last days. |