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Arthur Miller - American Witness by John Lahr
34.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights. Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the playwright who almost single-handedly propelled twentiet ...Show more
Barbara Streisand by Neal Gabler
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful...talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud - Freud up until the age of fifty - that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself sceptical of the writing of ...Show more
Ben Hecht - Fighting Words, Moving Pictures by Adina Hoffman
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies t ...Show more
Einstein - His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understandin ...Show more
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's sense ...Show more
Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedlander
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka's life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence-in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especial ...Show more
Golda Meir: Israel's Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Contribution by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
In the eyes of millions of American Jews, she could do no wrong. For close to five decades, for better and for worse, she shaped how American Jews saw and understood Israel and its place in the world. If the laudatory works depict a woman who built a nation, sent men into battle, negotiated treaties, sp ...Show more
Groucho Marx - The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence by Lee Siegel
36.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee S ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more