by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
A Memoir As Disturbing As It Is Comical By Wendy Lawless Gallery Books, $25.00, 304 pages Wendy Lawless had a jet-setting lifestyle that most girls would envy: New York to London, Paris to Morocco. But behind closed doors, she and her younger sister were...
by michaeld | Apr 5, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
A Thorough History of The Hollywood Canteen! By Lisa Mitchell & Bruce Torrence Bear Manor Media, $22.95, 208 pages During World War II in sunny California, the Canteen was the place to be. Big-name Bette Davis used her celebrity power to rally up...
by michaeld | Feb 9, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
Kelley’s Moving Narrative Breaths Life into the Photographs That Defined an Era By Kitty Kelley Thomas Dunne Books, 29.99, 230 pages Stanley Tretick’s most notable work was the photographs he took of President Kennedy and his family. The famous...
by Site Owner | Sep 7, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Francine Mathews Riverhead Books, $26.95, 361 pages History places a young Jack Kennedy in Europe in 1939, doing research for his senior thesis at Harvard. Author Francine Mathews braids him into a plot so tightly woven around actual people and places it feels...