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Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061139628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition written by Gail Collins and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining flair, she speculates on how gossip reflects the current moral compass of the time, noting how a rumor, like an unpredictable summer tornado, can flatten one reputation while a similar story passes over another with hardly a rustle. "Hilariously readable" (The Economist), Scorpion Tongues offers sinful scandals and mild hearsay for every taste.

Scorpion Tongues

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Scorpion Tongues written by Gail Collins and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062046969
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Scorpion Tongues New and Updated Edition written by Gail Collins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining flair, she speculates on how gossip reflects the current moral compass of the time, noting how a rumor, like an unpredictable summer tornado, can flatten one reputation while a similar story passes over another with hardly a rustle. "Hilariously readable" (The Economist), Scorpion Tongues offers sinful scandals and mild hearsay for every taste.

Scorpion Tongues

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Scorpion Tongues written by Gail Collins and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of political gossips covers the two centuries of hearsay, defamation, and nasty rumors surrounding the most powerful people in the U.S.

Grover Cleveland

Author : Rita J. Markel
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 082251494X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Grover Cleveland written by Rita J. Markel and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and political career of the twenty-second president of the United States, who was the first person to have served two nonconsecutive terms and the only one to get married in the White House.

Star Struck

Author : Sam Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313358133
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Star Struck written by Sam Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day. Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation, a phenomenon that sometimes supplants more weighty matters yet constitutes one of our nation's biggest exports. This encyclopedia covers American celebrity culture from 1950 to 2008, examining its various aspects—and its impact—through 86 entries by 30 expert contributors. Demonstrating that all celebrities are famous, but not all famous people are celebrities, the book cuts across the various entertainment medias and their legions of individual "stars." It looks at sports celebrities and examines the role of celebrity in more serious pursuits and institutions such as the news media, corporations, politics, the arts, medicine, and the law. Also included are entries devoted to such topics as paranoia and celebrity, one-name celebrities, celebrity nicknames, family unit celebrity, sidekick celebrities, and even criminal celebrities.

The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography

Author : Thomas Söderqvist
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317028902
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography written by Thomas Söderqvist and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of scientists carry an increasingly prominent role in today's publishing climate. Traditional historical and sociological accounts of science are complemented by narratives that emphasize the importance of the scientific subject in the production of science. Not least is the realization that the role of science in culture is much more accessible when presented through the lives of its practitioners. Taken as a genre, such biographies play an important role in the public understanding of science. In recent years there has been an increasing number of monographs and collections about biography in general and literary biography in particular. However, biographies of scientists, engineers and medical doctors have rarely been the topic of scholarly inquiry. As such this volume of essays will be welcomed by those interested in the genre of science biography, and who wish to re-examine its history, foundational problems and theoretical implications. Borrowing approaches and methods from cultural studies and the history, philosophy and sociology of science, the contributions cover a broad range of subjects, periods and locations. By presenting such a rich diversity of essays, the volume is able to chart the reoccurring conceptual problems and devices that have influenced scientific biographies from classical antiquity to the present day. In so doing it provides a compelling overview of the history of the genre, suggesting that the different valuations given scientific biography over time have been largely fuelled by vested professional interests.

The Walled Garden

Author : Lawrence M. Friedman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153816230X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Walled Garden written by Lawrence M. Friedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privacy, in human history, is a relatively recent concept. Nobody had much privacy in the Middle Ages. Even kings and queens lacked privacy: it was an age when crowds watched a queen give birth, and the king received visitors while on the chamber pot. Technology and concepts of privacy grew up together—as both friends and enemies. For example, the late 19th century invention of the candid camera made it possible, for the first time, to take someone’s picture without that person’s consent. This fact was in the background of the classic article by Warren and Brandeis that launched the right of privacy. Today, we have smart phones with cameras, selfies, the Internet, surveillance cameras, and tools that can look through walls, smell through walls, see through walls. Dangers to privacy have multiplied enormously, and we have only just begin figuring how to handle the change. This book is timely as our basic understandings of privacy are challenged by modern technology, changing social mores, and evolving legal understandings that both reflect and reinforce underlying changes in society. It is likely to be of interest to graduate and undergraduate students, scholars, and potentially other professionals with an interest in law and social norms.

Religion in the Oval Office

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199391394
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Oval Office written by Gary Scott Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the work of Faith and the Presidency (OUP 2006), Gary Scott Smith takes on eleven more US presidents and examines the role religion played in their policies, personal lives, and decisions.

Confidential Confidential

Author : Samantha Barbas
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0912777567
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Confidential Confidential written by Samantha Barbas and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the bestselling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Eventually the stars fought back, filing multimillion-dollar libel suits against the magazine. The state of California, prodded by the film studios, prosecuted Harrison for obscenity and criminal libel, culminating in a famous, star-studded Los Angeles trial. This is Confidential's story, detailing how the magazine revolutionized celebrity culture and American society in the 1950s and beyond. With its bold red-yellow-and-blue covers, screaming headlines, and tawdry stories, Confidential exploded the candy-coated image of movie stars that Hollywood and the press had sold to the public. It transformed Americas from innocents to more sophisticated, worldly people, wise to the phony and constructed nature of celebrity. It shifted reporting on celebrities from an enterprise of concealment and make-believe to one that was more frank, bawdy, and true. Confidential's success marked the end of an era of hush-hush—of secrets, closets, and sexual taboos—and the beginning of our age of tell-all exposure.

When Private Talk Goes Public

Author : Kathleen Feeley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137442301
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book When Private Talk Goes Public written by Kathleen Feeley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.

A Genius for Confusion

Author : Richard M. Fried
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538145782
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book A Genius for Confusion written by Richard M. Fried and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new biography of Joseph R. McCarthy shows how the Wisconsin Senator’s campaign against American Communists prized sensation above truth. McCarthy often put aside his hunt for Reds while he pursued his anti-communist critics. He fought foes not just with noisy accusations but with covert gossip. He was gullible enough that some con artists managed to lure him on wild goose chases. The man who charged others with being “dupes” was sometimes one himself. Historian Fried’s book builds on over a decade’s research in a multitude of sources, many of them newly opened—not just McCarthy’s own papers but those of forty-seven Senate colleagues, plus records of journalists, observers, and activists. It brings to light such theatrical episodes as a CIA “op” against McCarthy as well as Joe’s quixotic search for Soviet security chief Lavrenti Beria in Spain. The resulting multi-focal perspective on the political and institutional setting in which McCarthy operated with such abandon is full of drama.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787437
Total Pages : 3905 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.

America's Women

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061739227
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book America's Women written by Gail Collins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.

Poisoning the Press

Author : Mark Feldstein
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142997897X
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Poisoning the Press written by Mark Feldstein and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is March 1972, and the Nixon White House wants Jack Anderson dead. The syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the most famous and feared investigative reporter in the nation, has exposed yet another of the President's dirty secrets. Nixon's operatives are ordered to "stop Anderson at all costs"—permanently. Across the street from the White House, they huddle in a hotel basement to conspire. Should they try "Aspirin Roulette" and break into Anderson's home to plant a poisoned pill in one of his medicine bottles? Could they smear LSD on the journalist's steering wheel, so that he would absorb it through his skin, lose control of his car, and crash? Or stage a routine-looking mugging, making Anderson appear to be one more fatal victim of Washington's notorious street crime? Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture recounts not only the disturbing story of an unprecedented White House conspiracy to assassinate a journalist, but also the larger tale of the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar era's most embattled politician and its most reviled newsman. The struggle between Nixon and Anderson included bribery, blackmail, forgery, spying, and burglary as well as the White House murder plot. Their vendetta symbolized and accelerated the growing conflict between the government and the press, a clash that would long outlive both men. Mark Feldstein traces the arc of this confrontation between a vindictive president and a flamboyant, crusading muckraker who rifled through garbage and swiped classified papers in pursuit of his prey—stoking the paranoia in Nixon that would ultimately lead to his ruin. The White House plot to poison Anderson, Feldstein argues, is a metaphor for the poisoned political atmosphere that would follow, and the toxic sensationalism that contaminates contemporary media discourse. Melding history and biography, Poisoning the Press unearths significant new information from more than two hundred interviews and thousands of declassified documents and tapes. This is a chronicle of political intrigue and the true price of power for politicians and journalists alike. The result—Washington's modern scandal culture—was Richard Nixon's ultimate revenge.

Fama

Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488573
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Fama written by Thelma S. Fenster and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval Europe, the word fama denoted both talk (what was commonly said about a person or event) and an individual's ensuing reputation (one's fama). Although talk by others was no doubt often feared, it was also valued and even cultivated as a vehicle for shaping one's status. People had to think about how to "manage" their fama, which played an essential role in the medieval culture of appearances.At the same time, however, institutions such as law courts and the church, alarmed by the power of talk, sought increasingly to regulate it. Christian moral discourse, literary and visual representation, juristic manuals, and court records reflected concern about talk. This book's authors consider how talk was created and entered into memory. They address such topics as fama's relation to secular law and the preoccupations of the church, its impact on women's lives, and its capacity to shape the concept of literary authorship.

William Henry Harrison

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805091181
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book William Henry Harrison written by Gail Collins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Harrison died just 31 days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look.