My Word is My Bond

Author	David Niven
ISBN	0140239243

One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.

Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows...

Author	Spike Milligan
ISBN	0140051961

I could read Spike Milligan all day. He is the funniest writer I’ve ever come across. Pure silly, slapstick humour but tinged with sadness. He lost some good friends during the war years. From his war memoirs the general consensus is he had as much interest in the war effort as a truant has at school. While...

Author	Jerry Lewis
ISBN	0767920872

They were the unlikeliest of pairs — a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J..

Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and...

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Anthony Everitt

Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly...

Author	Robert Frank
ISBN	0307339262

There ought to be a way to give a book two scores. If there were I would give this both a 2 and a 4.

I have been looking for a book that would update things I read in the 70s; books that emerge from the C. Wright Mills school of political economic sociology. For example, Mills' Power Elite, Domhoff's...

Author	Barbara Eden
ISBN	0307886948

A magical, heartwarming memoir from one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons
 
Over the past four decades, the landmark NBC hit television series I Dream of Jeannie has delighted generations of audiences and inspired untold numbers of teenage crushes on its beautiful blond star, Barbara...