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Search - Newsweek Condensed Books: Majesty, Here that Lonesome Whistle Blow, A Coronary Event, Long Live the King

Newsweek Condensed Books Majesty Here that Lonesome Whistle Blow A Coronary Event Long Live the King
Author: Robert Lacey, Dee Brown, Michael Halberstam, Stephan Lesher, Lyn Tornabene

Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor by Robert Lacey — His biography is a masterwork of contemporary history: a book so wide-ranging, so penetrating, and so compelling that it deserves to ranked among the great biographies of our time. Majesty's concerns are the grandest surviving monarchy in the world, the personalities who populate it... more », and their actions both at the center of Britain's consciousness and in the private enclaves of wealth and privilege. From the end of the first World War, the beginning of "modern" England, through the present day, Lacey provides a brilliant portrayal of a family and their kingdom.

Here that Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West by Dee Brown

Author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, tells the extraordinary story of the building of the transcontinental railroads during the last half of the 19th century. The heroes and villains of this breathtaking technological achievement were Irish laborers, Chinese coolies, intrepid engineers, avaricious bankers, stock manipulators, and corrupt politicians. Before it was over one tenth of the country was given away to the railroad magnates, Indian tribes were decimated, the buffalo were driven from the Great Plains, millions of immigrants were lured from Europe, and a continental nation was built.

A Coronary Event: The personal story of a heart attack by the doctor who treated it and the man who had it by Michael Halberstam, M.D. and Stephan Lesher

They have written a brutally honest, intimate, and surprisingly funny narrative of how the two of them, Lesher the patient and Halberstam the doctor, found themselves embroiled in an emotional tug-of-war during a confrontation with America's number-one killer, heart attack. Gradually each man becomes the central character in the other's life. This is a book whose human drama and dynamic narrative style make for a consistently intriguing medical documentary.

Long Live the King: A Biography of Clarke Gable by Lyn Tornabene

Her portrait of Clarke Gable, the King, brings excitingly to life the quintessential American movie star, whose jaunty self-assurance and unaffected masculinity made him a hero to millions. Penetrating the legend surrounding this complex, fascinating individual, the author presents an engrossing picture not only of Gable, the star and the man, but of the Hollywood in which he worked. Untainted by flacking, Long Live the King is a life story with perspective, intelligence, and taste.

Volume 5 Number 4

ISBN-13: 9780882251721
ISBN-10: 0882251724
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 480
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Publisher: Newsweek, Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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