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Onassis

Author : Frank Brady
Publisher : Nycreative Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780989913737
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Onassis written by Frank Brady and published by Nycreative Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Onassis, as he emerges from these pages, is superb...Onassis was a phenomenon in our time, combining money, power, intelligence, a zest for humanity, and, I suspect, a deep-seated humanity...Onassis was, above all, a man...Brady provides many insights into the attitudes of the man." The New York Times Book Review "Onassis was a hard-driving ambitious man who went after whatever he wanted and usually succeeded...He was a shrewd businessman who knew how to charm people, how to entertain them, how to sweep them off their feet and into his corner...Brady is to be commended for coming up with such a probing study." West Coast Review of Books "A life that so excels most fiction...For Onassis's lifestyle, Brady's is the better source." The Washington Post "For the people yearning to read about the feud with shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, the affair with diva Maria Callas, the marriage to Jackie Kennedy, the friendship with Winston Churchill, and the quarrel with Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier." Publishers Weekly "Glamorous ... more like a novel than a biography ... illuminates the paradoxes in Onassis' life." Newsday "A fast-moving biography of a robust, colorful life ... detailing the Greek's penchant for beautiful women ... An unblinking appraisal of a power-wielder and his vulnerabilities." Booklist "Brady concentrates on the women in Onassis' life, from the extraordinary Ingebord Dedichen who served as Onassis' early mentor ... to Jacqueline Kennedy." The New York Times "Laughing and conniving and handing out diamond necklaces, the man had something life-giving ..." Chicago Daily News

Ari

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 : 9781557730060
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Ari written by Peter Evans and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, Ari Onassis personally summoned Peter Evans to write his life story. After months of exclusive conversations, years of extensive research, and in-depth interviews with Onassis's friends, lovers and rivals, Evans produced the only true, full account of the charismatic and ruthless Aristotle Onassis. To be a major ABC miniseries in February. 32 pages of photos.

Aristotle Onassis

Author : Nicholas Fraser
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle Onassis written by Nicholas Fraser and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All the Pain Money Can Buy

Author : William Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743211634
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book All the Pain Money Can Buy written by William Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the turbulent life of Christina Onassis, one of the wealthiest women in the world, probing behind the sensational headlines to find the drama of one woman's search for love.

Nemesis

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060580534
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Nemesis written by Peter Evans and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the feud between Aristotle Onassis and the Kennedy family, documenting Robert Kennedy's role in barring Onassis from U.S.trade and the shipping magnate's early relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy.

Greek Fire

Author : Nicholas Gage
Publisher : Vision
ISBN 13 : 9780446610766
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greek Fire written by Nicholas Gage and published by Vision. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with newly uncovered secrets, this account of the romance of Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas reveals their full story. Drawing from the private papers of Callas, the author tracks their relationship, from Onassis's pursuit of Callas throughout Europe to the strange covert courtship conducted prior to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.

Maria Callas

Author : Arianna Huffington
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461624290
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Maria Callas written by Arianna Huffington and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "...the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is brought brilliantly to life, from her transformation from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent, celebrated soprano, to her conflict with her larger-than-life image. Huffington makes this struggle, which was at the center of her life, also the center of the biography. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material and numerous first-hand interviews, Huffington documents Callas' interminable conflict with her mother, her deeply emotional relationship with her voice, the gradual unraveling of her first marriage, her passionate love affair with of Aristotle Onassis, her agony and humiliation at his leaving her, and her secret abortion.

The Birthday Party

Author : Panos Karnezis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369706
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Birthday Party written by Panos Karnezis and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knopf Canada is proud to welcome an internationally acclaimed, award-winning writer with his brilliant novel that tells the story of one of world’s richest and most infamous tycoons. As dawn breaks on a small island late in the summer of 1975, a tycoon wakes up to oversee the final preparations for his daughter’s birthday party. Finding out that she is pregnant by someone he does not approve of, he tries to persuade her to end the pregnancy: his private doctor – and oldest friend – is standing by to perform the procedure. Among the other guests is the tycoon’s ambitious biographer. The story intersperses the riveting events that unfold during the day of the party with the tycoon’s rise to wealth and fame, from childhood in Asia Minor to old age, via Buenos Aires, New York, London and Paris, and the attempts of his young biographer to bring his subject’s true personality to light. The Birthday Party is at once fascinating, revealing and hilarious – a gripping novel that comments upon the art of biography and the invention of a human life.

The Richest Girl in the World

Author : Stephanie Mansfield
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558177925
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book The Richest Girl in the World written by Stephanie Mansfield and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 13, she inherited a $100 million tobacco fortune. By the time she was 30, Doris Duke had lavished millions on her lovers and husbands. An eccentric and maverick, Duke's intimate circle of friends included Jacqueline Onassis, Malcolm Forbes, Truman Capote, Errol Flynn and Andy Warhol. 16 pages of photos.

Ari

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140099614
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Ari written by Peter Evans and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortune Hunters

Author : Charlotte Hays
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429917431
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune Hunters written by Charlotte Hays and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Madame de Pompadour, the famed mistress of Louis XV, to Pamela Harriman, who married into the English aristocracy and the American plutocracy, there is a rich history of women who have found glamour and wealth in the arms of a billionaire. But contrary to what you may think, fortune hunting is no idle pursuit. Like diving for treasure, it's a real job. Some women strive to be CEOs; others prefer to wed them. You'll meet today's dazzling successes in this book. What kind of woman does it take to make the Midas marriage? Exploring the lives of the great fortune hunters of our day, reporter and former gossip columnist Charlotte Hays answers this tantalizing question. You'll learn about the South Carolina woman who took a trip around the world with a shadowy shipping magnate, only to meet and marry a philandering marquis. You'll see what methods these women use to lure their powerful men, including one playful fortune seeker who, at a very high-society soirée, hurled a piece of bread at her intended beau, starting a food fight. You'll meet the New York socialite who remarried so quickly after a divorce, her ex claimed she was a bigamist. What are their recipes for riches? Can a genuinely nice woman pursue this career? What does love have to do with it? With original interviews and photos, Hays casts a light on the determination, skill, and---yes, sometimes---ruthlessness that have shaped some of the most successful---and lucrative---unions of our time.

Country Girl

Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316230367
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Country Girl written by Edna O'Brien and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.

Destiny Prevails

Author : Paulos Iōannēs Iōannidēs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990757474
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Destiny Prevails written by Paulos Iōannēs Iōannidēs and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paul J. Ioannidis first met Aristotle Onassis in Cairo in 1956. The decorated resistance fighter quickly became one of Onassis' most trusted business associates, eventually becoming the director general of Onassis-owned Olympic Airways and one of the founding board members of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. For 57 years, he worked with the Onassis Group -- and he has spent nearly 43 years as a close advisor and friend of the Onassis family, sharing a special relationship with Onassis' children, Alexander and Christina ... For the first time in English, Ioannidis tells his story, tracing back to his days as a rebel fighter against the Nazis. He also tells the story of how Onassis founded Olympic Airways, becoming one of only two men in the world at the time to own his own airline -- the other was Howard Hughes, the owner of TWA. Like an ancient Greek tragedy, Onassis' story unfolds, from losing his son and successor in a horrific plane accident to losing his own health before his daughter was ready to assume leadership of the business empire that he had built. Ioannidis is there when Onassis enters his dying son's room; he's at the controls of a private flight to Crete with opera singer Maria Callas; and he witnesses the strain between Onassis' wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and his daughter, Christina, over the terms of Aristotle's will. After Christina's untimely death, he is one of four men who managed the estate of her minor daughter, Athina -- an estate that prompted an intense legal struggle with her father, Thierry Roussel. With intimate details and documentation, this eyewitness reveals information about the saga of the Onassis family that has never before been published and is little known"--Preliminary pages.

Jackie as Editor

Author : Greg Lawrence
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429975180
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Jackie as Editor written by Greg Lawrence and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating window into an aspect of Jackie Kennedy Onassis that few of us know.” —USA Today History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation’s tragic widow, the millionaire’s wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty-year-long career as a book editor. Jackie as Editor is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman’s editorial career. At the age of forty-six, Jacket went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances to examine one of the twentieth century’s most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle. Over the last third of her life, Jackie shepherded more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and even Michael Jackson. Jackie as Editor gives intimate new insights into the life of a complex and enigmatic woman. “Fascinating.” —Town & Country “Perceptive, impressively researched.” —Publishers Weekly “You can tell a lot about the late First Lady’s life by the books she loved, and those she edited in her nearly two decades as a publishing executive.” —O Magazine “A deeply admiring portrait.” —Kirkus Reviews “A must for Jackie fans.” —Sarah Bradford, New York Times–bestselling author of America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Furious Love

Author : Sam Kashner
Publisher : JR Books
ISBN 13 : 1907532560
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Furious Love written by Sam Kashner and published by JR Books. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the king and queen of Hollywood. Yet their two marriages to each other represented much more than outlandish romance. Together, Elizabeth and Richard were a fascinating embodiment of the mores and transgressions of their time and even luminaries like Jacqueline Kennedy looked to them as a barometer of the culture. The enduring glamour, grandeur, drama and bravado embodied in the couple gave rise to the type of rabid gossip and wide-eyed adoration that are the staples of todayÕ s media. Using brand-new research and interviews Ð including unique access to Taylor herself, the Burton family, and TaylorÕ s extensive personal correspondence Ð this ultimate celebrity biography is the gripping real-life story of a fairy-tale couple whose lives were even grander and more outrageous than the epic films they made.

Maria Callas

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 125029391X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Maria Callas written by Anne Edwards and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling biographer Anne Edwards comes the irresistible true story of the lives and loves of the great opera diva, Maria Callas. Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us decades after her death, not only because she was indisputably the greatest opera diva of the 20th century, but also because both her life and death were shrouded in a Machiavellian web of scandal, mystery and deception. Now Anne Edwards, well known for her revealing and insightful biographies of some of the world's most noted women, tells the intimate story of Maria Callas—her loves, her life, and her music, revealing the true woman behind the headlines, gossip and speculation. The second daughter of Greek immigrant parents, Maria found herself in the grasp of an overwhelmingly ambitious mother who took her away from her native New York and the father she loved, to a Greece on the eve of the Second World War. From there, we learn of the hardships, loves and triumphs Maria experienced in her professional and personal life. We are introduced to the men who marked Callas forever—Luchino Visconti, the brilliant homosexual director who she loved hopelessly, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the husband thirty years her senior who used her for his own ambitions, as had her mother, and Aristotle Onassis, who put an end to their historic love affair by discarding her for the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy. Throughout her life, Callas waged a constant battle with her weight, a battle she eventually won, transforming herself from an ugly duckling into the slim and glamorous diva who transformed opera forever, whose recordings are legend, and whose life is the stuff of which tabloids are made. Anne Edwards goes deeper than previous biographies of Maria Callas have dared. She draws upon intensive research to refute the story of Callas's "mystery child" by Onassis, and she reveals the true circumstances of the years preceding Callas's death, including the deception perpetrated by her close and trusted friend. As in her portraits of other brilliant, star-crossed women, Edwards brings Maria Callas—the intimate Callas—alive.

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186541
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Leonard Bernstein Letters written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein’s letters blow all biographies out of the water.”—The Economist (2013 Book of the Year) Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life—musical and personal—and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities. Bernstein’s letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein’s musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor. “The correspondence from and to the remarkable conductor is full of pleasure and insights.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Exhaustive, thrilling [and] indispensable.”—USA Today (starred review)