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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
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
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
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
Jerome Robbins - A Life in Dance by Wendy Lesser
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A lively and inspired biography celebrating the centennial of this master choreographer, dancer, and stage director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who ...Show more
Man Ray - The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Lee Miller traveled to Paris in 1929 in search of Man Ray. But when she called at his studio at 31 bis rue Campagne-Première, the concierge informed her that hélas, the man she sought had just departed for his summer holiday. What to do? She retreated to a nearby bar, the Bateau Ivre, that was known to ...Show more
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith & Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
The first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Th ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
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Category: Film & Music | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
When he made a movie Kubrick was obsessively focused because he had to find a solution to every problem. ... His movies are about mastery that fails. Perfectly controlled schemes get botched through human error or freak accidents, or hijacked by masculine rage. ... Stanley Kubrick asserted total control ...Show more
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