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The Barry Diller Story: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Entertainment Mogul: George Mair
Editorial Reviews From Library Journal Barry Diller has been a Hollywood player since his days in the mail room of the William Morris Agency, a job he landed with the help of Marlo Thomas. A few years later, he invented the ABC movie of the w...
Jacob H. Schiff: A Study in American Jewish Leadership (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life): Naomi W. Cohen
Editorial Reviews Review “Modern American Jews generally believe that until the period after World War II American Jewry was afraid to exert political power. ‘Jacob H. Schiff’ . . . is a useful corrective to this mistaken...
Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John Mitchell Jr.: Ann Field Alexander
Editorial Reviews Review “[T]he best, most comprehensive, and most important biography of a southern black editor during the era of Jim Crow.” — Fitzhugh Brundage, University of Florida, author of Lynching in the New South ...
From Strength to Strength: An Autobiography: Sara Henderson
Editorial Reviews In From Strength to Strength, Sara Henderson tells her life story, from her birth in September of 1936 up through September of 1991, 55 remarkable years later. It’s a life worth telling, and worth reading about. And though t...
Luncheonette: A Memoir: Steven Sorrentino
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Aspiring actor Sorrentino’s plans of making it big in New York are squelched when his father contracts a debilitating illness that paralyzes him from the chest down. Dutifully taking over dadR...
Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer: Stephen B. Goddard
Editorial Reviews Review “a wonderful job…fascinating bits of history…a valuable index and thorough bibliography. A A little over a century ago in Hartford, Connecticut, Colonel Albert A. Pope was hailed as a leading auto...

