Intimate Memoirs
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
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Author : Judy Huddleston
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1613747500
"Sections of this book were previously published in a different form as This is the end-- my only friend"--Title page verso.
Author : Ambès (baron d', pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Bettina Aptheker
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1580054404
Set amidst the political upheaval of the McCarthy trials, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the women's movement, Intimate Politics is a courageous and uncompromising account of one woman's personal and political transformation, and a fascinating portrayal of a key chapter in our nation's history. At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with a terrible secret: incest at the hands of her famous father and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. A gripping and beautifully rendered memoir, Intimate Politics is at its core the story of one woman's struggle to still the demons of her personal world while becoming a controversial public figure herself. This is the story of childhood sexual abuse, abortion, sexual violence, activism, and the triumph over one's past. It's about FBI harassment and persecution, Jewish heritage, and lesbian identity. It is, finally, about the courage to speak one's truth despite the consequences and to break the sacred silence of family secrets.
Author : Rachele Mussolini
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Om den italienske diktator fortalt af hans hustru
Author : Dexter Scott King
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2003-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759527334
In the bestselling tradition of such family portraits as Brooke Hayward's Haywire and Christopher Dickey's Summer of Deliverance comes a disarmingly candid memoir from the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter King was only seven when an assassin's bullet took his father's life, shattering the boy's childhood. And as he stumbled into adolescence, both the tragedy and the weight of living up to "the King legacy" would exact an additional toll. Challenged with undiagnosed A.D.D. and rocked once again by his grandmother's murder, King became emotionally isolated and, in his early 30s, sought answers from an inspiring source: the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, in this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today.
Author : Theodore Zeldin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1448161991
'The book that changed my life... a constant companion' Bill Bailey 'Extraordinary and beautiful...the most exciting and ambitious work of non-fiction I have read in more than a decade' The Daily Telegraph This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen. Portraits of living people and historical figures are placed alongside each other as Zeldin discusses how men and women have lost and regained hope; how they have learnt to have interesting conversations; how some have acquired an immunity to loneliness; how new forms of love and desire have been invented; how respect has become more valued than power; how the art of escaping from one's troubles has developed; why even the privileged are often gloomy; and why parents and children are changing their minds about what they want from each other.
Author : Sally Mann
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031624774X
This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.
Author : Ann Dowsett Johnston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062241818
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls. With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational lives. They have also achieved equality with men in more troubling areas as well. In the U.S. alone, the rates of alcohol abuse among women have skyrocketed in the past decade. DUIs, “drunkorexia” (choosing to limit eating to consume greater quantities of alcohol), and health problems connected to drinking are all rising—a problem exacerbated by the alcohol industry itself. Battling for women’s dollars and leisure time, corporations have developed marketing strategies and products targeted exclusively to women. Equally alarming is a recent CDC report showing a sharp rise in binge drinking, putting women and girls at further risk. As she brilliantly weaves in-depth research, interviews with leading researchers, and the moving story of her own struggle with alcohol abuse, Johnston illuminates this startling epidemic, dissecting the psychological, social, and industry factors that have contributed to its rise, and exploring its long-lasting impact on our society and individual lives.