A Family of Kings: The Descendants of Christian IX of Denmark, Aronson Theo
Автор: Aronson Theo Название: Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld ISBN: 1839012609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012600 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy's alleged involvement in a Victorian cause c l bre - the Cleveland Street brothel case.
The discovery of this homosexual brothel in 1889 led to an extraordinary cover-up by the British government - a cover-up which is explicable only in the light of Prince Eddy's involvement.
Working from original sources (including the files of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Esher Papers), Theo Aronson has written the first full account of the strange life of Prince Eddy, setting it in perspective against a vivid backcloth of the astonishingly active homosexual underworld during the last decades of Queen Victoria's reign.
Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld explores Prince Eddy's upbringing, his university and military careers, his curious personality, his alleged "secret marriage", his links with the Jack the Ripper murders, his early death and, above all, his sexual orientation. For it was this that linked the young prince's name to the Cleveland Street Scandal.
Praise for Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld:
'Students of the erotic will love this book, and so will royal-watchers, but arbiters of sexual purity should hate it, for Mr. Aronson displays an underground culture that exposed its judges as upright liars' - New York Times Book Review
Автор: Aronson Theo Название: The King in Love: Edward VII`s Mistresses ISBN: 1839012595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012594 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An all-embracing account of the loves of that royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King. Spanning three decades, the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society.
Автор: Aronson Theo Название: Royal Family: Years of Transition ISBN: 1839012633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839012631 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Here is a royal book with a difference.
It is a family saga showing the monarchy from the death of Queen Victoria to the present day. But rather than just an account of the reign of the five 20th-century monarchs, this is a study of their dynasty; of both its major and minor members. The entire royal family is vividly portrayed - with its triumphs and its heartbreaks, its brilliance and its mediocrity, its strengths and its vulnerabilities.
Over eighty years, the royal family has adapted to changing times in order not only to survive but to enhance its position in national and international life. They are in a state of continuous transition; a family deeply concerned with making itself relevant to contemporary life while retaining its essential element of mystique.
Many other interesting themes also emerge: the education and upbringing of the royal children; the reconciling of public obligations with private inclinations; the constitutional position of the monarch; the frustrations of heirs-apparent; the varied and often onerous duties of family members; the composition of the royal households; the relationship with the press; the contrasting atmosphere of the different reigns; the marriages, the divorces and the sometimes disastrous love affairs.
Theo Aronson has received an exceptional degree of cooperation from the Palace. He has been granted audiences with members of four generations of the royal family: the late Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and the Prince of Wales. He has also heard from members of the various royal households - secretaries, comptrollers, press secretaries, equerries, and ladies-in-waiting.
Автор: Norma Stevens; Steven M. L. Aronson Название: Avedon: Something Personal ISBN: 0812994434 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812994438 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 3678.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who "helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture" (The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. L. Aronson. Richard Avedon was arguably the world's most famous photographer--as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper's Bazaar andthen Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. He also went on the road to find and photograph remarkable uncelebrated faces, with an eye toward constructing a grand composite picture of America. Avedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. He possessed a mystique so unique it was itself a kind of genius--everyone fell under his spell. But the Richard Avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: he relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner andclosest confidant. In Avedon: Something Personal--equal parts memoir, biography, and oral history, including an intimate portrait of the legendary Avedon studio--Stevens and co-author Steven M. L. Aronson masterfully trace Avedon's life from his birth to his death, in 2004, at the age of eighty-one, while at work in Texas for The New Yorker (whose first-ever staff photographer he had become in 1992). The book contains startlingly candid reminiscences by Mike Nichols, Calvin Klein, Claude Picasso, Renata Adler, Brooke Shields, David Remnick, Naomi Campbell, Twyla Tharp, Jerry Hall, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bruce Weber, Cindy Crawford, Donatella Versace, Jann Wenner, and Isabella Rossellini, among dozens of others. Avedon: Something Personal is the confiding, compelling full story of a man who for half a century was an enormous influence on both high and popular culture, on both fashion and art--to this day he remains the only artist to have had not one but two retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime. Not unlike Richard Avedon's own defining portraits, the book delivers the person beneath the surface, with all his contradictions and complexities, and in all his touching humanity.
Описание: A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events. Savage Grace unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dalн, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters, and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.
Marking Time with Mark is a journey with Jesus through his three-year ministry. As the disciples slowly grow in their faith, we can see how God works in them and in us to take us from where we are to where he wants us to be. Taking time to delve into the emotions that they experienced as they traveled through their three years together, we will become more aware of our own connection to their story and our own ups and downs in our faith walk.
Each chapter encourages us to read, respond, and reflect on the story of Jesus Christ and its impact on our lives.
Автор: Aronson Peter Название: Jeannette Rankin: America`s First Congresswoman ISBN: 173207755X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732077553 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1102.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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JEANNETTE RANKIN: AMERICA'S FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN, a book for middle-grade readers and others who love American history, tells the inspiring true of a truly groundbreaking American woman.
Born on a ranch in Montana, Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916, a full century before Hillary Clinton made her historic run for president. A devout pacifist, Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against the U.S. fighting in World Wars I and II. Over the span of 60 years, she would become one of America's greatest feminists, pacifists and suffragists. Late in her life, Rankin led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade on a march in Washington against the Vietnam War. She fought for what she believed in. She never backed down.
The book, which contains 60 historic photoghraphs, is the second in Peter Aronson's Groundbreaker Series: Middle-grade biographies about extraordinary people doing extra ordinary things.
For information about the author's other books, please see the author's web site: www.peteraronsonbooks.com
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