Complete Gone with the Wind Trpb
10 best books like Complete Gone with the Wind Trpb (Pauline Bartel): Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President: Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House, The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America, Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776, Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation, The Christmas Chronicles, Women Wartime Spies
Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life
| Author | Barnaby Conrad |
| ISBN | 1582971943 |
I have really mixed feelings about "Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life." On one hand, it's a fine collection of "Peanuts" comic strips devoted to Snoopy's failed attempts to become a novelist; on the other hand, it's also a ridiculously awful collection of some of the most simple-minded, unhelpful,...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Helen Thomas |
| ISBN | 0743202260 |
In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal chronicle of the American presidency. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an astounding...
| Author | April Ryan |
| ISBN | 1442238410 |
2016 NAACP Image Award Nominee, Essence Top 10 books of 2015, African American Literary Show Inc. 2015 Best Non Fiction Award In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from...
| Author | William Hogeland |
| ISBN | 1416584099 |
I think most people, when they think of the pre-Revolutionary days, are aware of two groups--those that supported independence and those that did not. But Hogeland shows how much more complex the real story was. There were those that wanted war with England leading to independence. There were those...
| Author | Ernie Pyle |
| ISBN | 0671644521 |
I was given a copy of this book to aid in my research on WWII for one of my Lash novels. I thought that it was simply going to be transcripts of Ernie’s dispatches sent in from the front lines of WWII that later were published in America. I hoped to get some eyewitness accounts and maybe some interesting anecdotes....
| Author | Patrick K. O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0743214811 |
In his award-winning book Beyond Valor, Patrick O'Donnell reveals the true nature of the European Theater in World War II, as told by those who survived. Now, with Into the Rising Sun, O'Donnell tells the story of the brutal Pacific War, based on hundreds of interviews spanning a decade. The men who fought...
| Author | Robert Gildea |
| ISBN | 0312423594 |
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts,...
| Author | Jeff Guinn |
| ISBN | 1585426695 |
All three of Jeff Guinn’s beloved Christmas Chronicles novels in one elegant edition.
The Autobiography of Santa Claus
“A book that deserves classic status.”
—The Dallas Morning News
This enchanting classic combines solid historical fact with glorious...
| Author | Ann Kramer |
| ISBN | 1844680584 |
From Mata Hari through to Noor Inyat Khan, women spies have rarely received the recognition they deserve. They have often been trivialized and, in cinema and popular fiction, stereotyped as vamps or dupes. The reality is very different. As spies, women have played a critical role during wartime, receiving...
Scarlett Letters: The Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
| Author | John Wiley Jr. |
| ISBN | 1589798724 |
One month after her novel Gone With the Wind was published, Margaret Mitchell sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars. Fearful of what the studio might do to her story—“I wouldn’t put it beyond Hollywood to have . . . Scarlett seduce General Sherman,” she joked—the author washed...
| Author | Stefan Kanfer |
| ISBN | 0375702075 |
This definitive biography of one of the world’s greatest comedians unflinchingly yet affectionately uncovers the man behind the cigar.
Here is the amazing career of the man the world recognized as Groucho: the improbable disasters of the vaudeville years; the Marx Brothers, an act so...
| Author | Bathroom Readers Institute |
From the 20th century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing...
Vanity Fair's Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind theMaking of 13 Iconic Films
| Author | Graydon Carter |
| ISBN | 0143114719 |
The stories behind the stories of some of Hollywood's most iconic movies
The magazine world 's monthly arbiter of culture, personality, and world affairs, Vanity Fair has always offered the definitive insider's look at Hollywood power and glamour since its relaunch twenty-five years ago....
First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
| Author | Susan Swain |
| ISBN | 1610395662 |
A look inside the personal life of every first lady in American history, based on original interviews with major historians
C-SPAN's yearlong history series, First Ladies: Influence and Image, featured interviews with more than fifty preeminent historians and biographers. In this informative...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy
| Author | John Cannon |
| ISBN | 0198227868 |
The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces...
Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
| Author | Pauline Kiernan |
| ISBN | 1592403271 |
Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeare’s body of work
London’s Elizabethan theaters were located in the seedy part of town, close to whorehouses but never far from Puritanical scorn. In...
Some Wore Blue & Some Wore Gray
With the 150th Anniversary of the Battle at Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg, New York Times Best Selling Author, Heather Graham, is revisiting one of her favorite time periods - The American Civil War. This time, however, she has compiled biographies of some of her favorite real-life characters...
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
| Author | Samuel D. Kassow |
| ISBN | 0307455866 |
In 1940, in the Jewish ghetto of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, the Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine scholarly organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the ghetto's inhabitants. For three years, members of the Oyneb Shabes worked in secret to chronicle...
Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
| Author | Eric M. Bergerud |
| ISBN | 0140246967 |
A brilliant history of the land battles in the Pacific theater of World War II, with stirring personal accounts of the horrifying struggle between the Japanese and Allied forces.
The horrors of WWII in the South Pacific extended far beyond the detonation of atomic bombs. In this revelatory...
The Making of Gone with the Wind
| Author | Steve Wilson |
| ISBN | 0292761260 |
Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and his business partner John Hay "Jock" Whitney, which are...
| Author | Terry Deary |
| ISBN | 0439959365 |
Rotten Rulers gives you the lowdown on the world's most loathsome leaders.From bizarre tsars and evil emperors to crazy kings and queens, people all around the world have suffered at the hands of their rulers for centuries. Whether they're nutty or nasty, fat or foul, those in charge rarely get it right....
Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal
| Author | Sandra Harmon |
| ISBN | 0312370245 |
It would be a gross simplification (as well as a mitigation of the crimes) to suggest that murder was simply a cost of doing business with Greg Scarpa Sr. While this may have been occasionally true, it would be erroneous to paint Scarpa with a romantic brush (as Mario Puzo did so elegantly with the Corleone...
The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation’s Past
| Author | David S. Kidder |
| ISBN | 1594867445 |
Modeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national bestseller The Intellectual Devotional—offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment—drew a year's worth of readings from seven different fields...
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
| Author | Mark C. Carnes |
| ISBN | 0805037608 |
In this widely-acclaimed volume, some of our greatest historians address the facts--and fiction--as seen in Hollywood's often epic recreations of historical events. Distinghuished historians such as Stephen Ambrose, Antonia Fraser, James McPherson, Gerda Lerner, Dee Brown, Frances FitzGerald,...
