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The Bellamy Saga

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448210720
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Bellamy Saga written by John Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, this fictional biography is the intimate and detailed portrait of the celebrated Bellamy family of the TV show Upstairs, Downstairs. No family in the past century - excepting perhaps the Forsytes - has been so dramatically exposed to public stare as the Bellamys of Eaton Place. Drawing from the diaries of Richard Bellamy, the personal letters of Lady Majorie, the Southwold Papers in the British Museum, as well as his own friendship with James Bellamy and his conversations with Mrs. Elizabeth (Bellamy) Wallace shortly before her recent death in New York City, John Pearson has written a sensitive and finely detailed portrait of this patrician English family. The Bellamys could not have anticipated the extraordinary interest that their lives have generated in Europe and America through the award-winning television series Upstairs, Downstairs. Here, Mr. Pearson chronicles the Bellamys' complex, stormy, and passionate lives during the years between 1884 and 1929, when they reigned at 165 Eaton Place. An exciting and intriguing narrative in its own right, The Bellamy Saga is also a tribute to the surviving relatives and friends who consented - although some of them did so reluctantly - to relinquish much of the privacy they cherish. John Pearson is also the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plumber (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor).

Call Me Crazy

Author : Melanie Harlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Call Me Crazy written by Melanie Harlow and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the perfect plan.I needed a wife--temporarily--in order to inherit the family business.And she needed a favor--the kind that takes nine months to deliver.We had it all worked out, from the no-touching policy on our wedding night (her rule) to the no-falling-in-love decree (mine). She'd marry me, I'd give her the means to have the baby she'd always wanted, and one year later we'd amicably part ways with no hassle, no demands, and certainly no regrets.After all, Bianca DeRossi and I are experts at infuriating one another--we've been doing it since we were kids. Trouble is, she grew up gorgeous and feisty, and she still knows exactly how to get under my skin.And that wedding night? Well, it doesn't exactly go down hands-free.Then she moves in with me, and I really start to lose my mind. From her sexy little pout to her wicked sense of humor to those meatball sandwiches she makes just because she knows they're my favorite . . . I find myself wanting to break every rule we put in place. Our story was never supposed to end with happily ever after. But call me crazy, I just might be in love with my wife.

Upstairs and Downstairs

Author : James Leggott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442244836
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Upstairs and Downstairs written by James Leggott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative nostalgia, these shows can also provide a lens to examine the class and gender politics of both the past and present. In Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey, James Leggott and Julie Anne Taddeo provide a collection of essays that analyze key developments in the history of period dramas from the late 1960s to the present day. Contributors explore such issues as how the genre fulfills and disrupts notions of “quality television,” the process of adaptation, the relationship between UK and U.S. television, and the connection between the period drama and wider developments in TV and popular culture. Additional essays examine how fans shape the content and reception of these dramas and how the genre has articulated or generated debates about gender, sexuality, and class. In addition to Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, other programs discussed in this collection include Call the Midwife, Danger UXB, Mr. Selfridge, Parade’s End, Piece of Cake, and Poldark. Tracing the lineage of costume drama from landmark productions of the late 1960s and 1970s to some of the most talked-about productions of recent years, Upstairs and Downstairs will be of value to students, teachers, and researchers in the areas of film, television, Victorian studies, literature, gender studies, and British history and culture.

Mirror to America

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374707049
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Mirror to America written by John Hope Franklin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of Chicago's history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world's most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that. From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation for arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin's life and this nation's racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.

They Died Crawling, and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe

Author : John Stark Bellamy, II
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1886228035
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book They Died Crawling, and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foulest crimes and worst in Cleveland history are recounted in these 15 incredible-but-true tales. Each no-holds-barred account into one of this city's most notorious moments, from the 1916 waterworks collapse to the Cleveland Clinic fire to the sensational Sam Sheppard murder trial. These gripping narratives deliver high drama and dark comedy, heroes and villains, obsession, courage, treachery, deceit, fear, and guilt -- all from the streets of Cleveland.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Day 21

Author : Kass Morgan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316234532
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Day 21 written by Kass Morgan and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries... or so they thought. Book 2 in The 100 series, now a popular show on the CW network. Facing an unknown enemy, Wells attempts to keep the group together. Clarke strikes out for Mount Weather, in search of other colonists, while Bellamy is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, Glass faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself. In this pulse-pounding sequel to The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. And the hundred will struggle to survive the only way they can--together.

The Forsyte Saga

Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192838629
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book The Forsyte Saga written by John Galsworthy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the struggles and relationships of the wealthy Forsyte family in nineteenth and twentieth century England.

Biggles

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207762
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Biggles written by John Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes the fictional biography of the mystical and fearless ace, James Biggles Worth. For over fifty years, James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C. has flown the skies in everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world. Yet until now Biggles has often been seen as a storybook caricature. A dashed fine chap, certainly, but not the extraordinary man he really was. Here, for the first time, is an insight into the 'real' man who made these adventures possible. In Biggles, his fictional biography, first published in 1978, John Pearson has unraveled the missing strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into subjects that were once taboo. Why did Biggles never marry? What was the truth about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he tried to come to terms with a rapidly developing world in peacetime? The truth - so long hidden behind a stiff upper lip and an equally stiff pink gin in the Officers' Mess - is at last revealed.

The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207835
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Private Lives of Winston Churchill written by John Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes an extraordinary biography of Winston Churchill, a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness. At the height of his power, he seemed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor, pride, and above all, tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply in the legacy of his birth-right, the heritage of his family, and the awesome responsibility of being born Churchill. In The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, first published in 1991, John Pearson takes us behind the myth of Churchill and deep into the psychology of a dynasty that some have called the most complicated Anglo-American family of this century. In doing so, he reveals, in rich portraits, some of the family's greatest, most charismatic, and most deeply troubled members and shows us the real, private Winston Churchill.

All the Money in the World

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448207819
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book All the Money in the World written by John Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar® Nominee Christopher Plummer Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One killed himself, one became a drug-addicted recluse and the third had to bear the stigma all his life of being disinherited in childhood. The unhappiness continued into the next generation, with the name Getty, as one journalist put it, 'becoming synonymous for family dysfunction'. Getty's once favourite grandson John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the Italian mafia who cut off his ear to raise a ransom and, after a lifetime of drink and drugs, became a paraplegic. His granddaughter Aileen has AIDS. And the Getty family itself has been torn apart by litigation over their poisoned inheritance. But did the disaster have to happen? John Pearson, who has specialized in biographies of families as varied as the Churchills, the British Royal Family, the Devonshires and the Krays, sets out to find the answer. The result, first published in 1995, is a fascinating saga of an extraordinary dynasty. He traces much of the trouble to the bizarre character of the avaricious, sex-obsessed billionaire, J. Paul Getty himself - and demonstrates how much of his behaviour has been repeated in succeeding generations. He describes the famous kidnapping of his grandson in graphic detail, revealing how the old man's attitude added considerably to the boy's sufferings. And he shows how the family has coped with the latest modern scourges: drugs and AIDS. For All the Money in the World is not a hopeless story. While some of the family have been damaged by the Getty legacy, others have saved themselves from disaster, most notably the cricket-loving philanthropist, J. Paul Getty Jr. Pearson's moving story of his recovery from drugs and deep personal tragedy shows that there is hope for future generations of this stricken family - and demonstrates that money can be used to buy survival and even happiness.

Masterpiece

Author : Nancy West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538134489
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Masterpiece written by Nancy West and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive guide for scholars and fans alike to all things Masterpiece and Mystery!" Library Journal, Starred Review On a wintry night in 1971, Masterpiece Theatre debuted on PBS. Fifty years later, America’s appetite for British drama has never been bigger. The classic television program has brought its fans protagonists such as The Dowager Countess and Ross Poldark and series that include Downton Abbey and Prime Suspect. In Masterpiece: America's 50-Year-Old Love Affair with British Television Drama, Nancy West provides a fascinating history of the acclaimed program. West combines excerpts from original interviews, thoughtful commentary, and lush photography to deliver a deep exploration of the television drama. Vibrant stories and anecdotes about Masterpiece’s most colorful shows are peppered throughout, such as why Benedict Cumberbatch hates Downton Abbey and how screenwriter Daisy Goodwin created a teenage portrait of Queen Victoria after fighting with her daughter about homework. Featuring an array of color photos from Masterpiece’s best-loved dramas, this book offers a penetrating look into the program’s influence on television, publishing, fashion, and its millions of fans.

Windswept

Author : Kaitlin Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692195727
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Windswept written by Kaitlin Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somewhere to the north, something terrible was happening. In the same way that he could smell the snow, and the same way he knew when the caravan would arrive, he could feel something in the air. A fire, in some town a day or so away. And there was a hint of fear in the air, the wild panic of a trapped animal before the slaughter." The wind has always spoken to Fox, but it was just instinct, wasn't it? Not a god's Blessing ... not magic. But his powers are growing, and soon, he cannot ignore it anymore: he has a gift. And he is the only one. Why the gods chose to make his homeland magically barren generations ago, he doesn't know. Why he's been chosen now is an even greater mystery. Now, he must learn to control his mysterious Blessing, before it controls him. Or worse.

Highlands-A-Go-Go

Author : DM Paule
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781440180583
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Highlands-A-Go-Go written by DM Paule and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta’s Virginia-Highland neighborhood: depending on who you talk to, it’s a historic suburb; or, a stylish entertainment district; or, a left-wing, political powerhouse; or a state-of-mind. It’s also where Donovan Ford, an über-hip New York columnist who’s unmotivated, under-employed and suddenly un-married, finds himself riding out his existential crisis. After years of writing about all that’s trendy and new, he’s begun to wonder what he has missed in life. That’s until his octogenarian Aunt DeLaine loads him into her biodiesel Rolls-Royce with a thermos of Manhattans. Over the course of a year, she takes him on a ride of discovery, introducing him to local customs, southern flora, and society fauna (aka, Atlanta's Grande Dames) ...not to mention himself.

Departures

Author : Adrienne Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891929816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Departures written by Adrienne Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gone to Timbuctoo

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448211565
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Gone to Timbuctoo written by John Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of All the Money in the World comes his thrilling debut novel. Not a tooth is knocked out, not a kidney bashed in... an outstanding thriller that rests on less obvious grounds. The characters are odd but rarely violent. Their aims are bizarre and their methods usually unorthodox. Their story is one of strange and constantly maintained suspense, based on a journey from Dakar to the River Niger and up through the remotest part of West Africa to Timbuctoo. The writing is witty and urbane, and the result is a thriller with all the vividness and authenticity of a sinister travel guide. Winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award. "A first novel of exceptional brilliance - exciting, perceptive, wryly amusing." - Malcolm Muggeridge

The Cult of Violence

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448211522
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Cult of Violence written by John Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and the brothers throughout their trial and prison years. Now Pearson revisits the twins' criminal past and lays bare the truth behind the legend. Drawing upon a mass of first-hand interviews and private information he was unable to use while the Krays were still alive, he finally recounts the chilling untold story of the Kray twins. John Pearson is also the author of All the Money in the World (previously titled Painfully Rich), now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott film and starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg and Christopher Plumber (nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor).