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Search - Newsweek Condensed Books: The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen, Fire and Ice, The Best Years, A Wind to Shake The World

Newsweek Condensed Books The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen Fire and Ice The Best Years A Wind to Shake The World
Author: Arnold C. Brackman, Andrew Tobias, Joseph C. Goulden, Everett S. Allen

The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen by Arnold C. Brackman — A brilliantly told, full story of the richest discovery in archaeological history: the exhausting, barren years of search; the astonishing find itself; and the story aftermath. The protagonists of the bizarre tale were two Englishmen: Lord Carnarvon, a onetime British playboy who sear... more »ched for a new purpose in life, and Howard Carter, a taciturn, prickly bachelor who didn't have an old school tie to his name. Their discovery was a sensation: Tutankhamen's tomb turned out to be a treasure chest; the coffin, for instance, weighing 2,500 pounds, was pure bullion. It took Carter ten years just to empty the tomb of all that glittered, gold and silver and precious stones.

Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson - The Man Who Built the Revlon Empire by Andrew Tobias

In this unauthorized biography, it details the story of one of the most powerful, controversial, and ruthless self-made men in American business history. Charles Revson started with one bottle of nail polish and a fine ear for female fantasy and built an empire, the Revlon Company. Revson became the subject of several novels and hundreds of gossip columnist's words. But the glamorous cutthroat cosmetics industry: a world of top models, big spending, and fierce competitiveness for the bright and beautiful life was only part of the tale.

The Best Years: 1945 - 1950 by Joseph C. Goulden

Goulden creates a through and exciting narrative of the America between V-J Day and the Korean War. In this period there was light moments as America sought to amuse herself. But the dominant mood was anything but light. In dramatic detail the author tells of the mounting tensions of the Cold War, the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss confrontation, the rise of Richard Nixon, and the onset of McCarthyism. Much of the narrative is in the words of the prominent and the obscure, describing what they thought and did during that time, and what they found.

A Wind to Shake the World: The Story of the 1938 Hurricane by Everett S. Allen

Recounting how on September 21, 1938, he began his first day as a reporter and how, before that day was over, he and hundreds of thousands of others along the Northeastern coast had experienced the worst natural disaster in American history: the hurricane of 1938. His narrative, the first comprehensive story of the catastrophe, is crowded with incredible tales of horror and heroism.

Volume 5 Number 2

ISBN-13: 9780882251707
ISBN-10: 0882251708
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Newsweek, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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