Moving across the atlantic when her father was appointed as the ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, Kick—the “nicest Kennedy”—quickly became the family’s star. Growing increasingly independent, kick would also shock and alienate her devout family by falling in love and marrying the scion of a virulently anti-Catholic family— William Cavendish, the heir apparent of the Duke of Devonshire and Chatsworth.
Yet even within this ebullient group of overachievers, the irrepressible Kathleen, the fourth Kennedy child, stood out. But the marriage would last only a few months; Billy was killed in combat in 1944, just four years before Kick’s own unexpected death in an airplane crash at twenty-eight. Paula byrne recounts this remarkable young woman’s life in detail as never before, from her work at the Washington Times-Herald and volunteerism for the Red Cross in wartime England; to her love of politics and astute, opinionated observations; to her decision to renounce her faith for the man she loved.
Filled with a wealth of revealing new material and insight, the biography of the vivacious, unconventional—and nearly forgotten—young Kennedy sister who charmed American society and the English aristocracy, and would break with her family for love. Encouraged to be “winners” from a young age, Rose and Joe Kennedy’s children were the embodiment of ambitious, wholesome Americanism.
Despite making little effort to fit into British high society, she charmed everyone from the beau monde to Fleet Street with her unconventional attitude and easygoing humor.
Alone Together: My Life with J. Paul Getty
Theodora "teddy" getty gaston—now one hundred years old—reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to J. She knew the vulnerable side of Getty—he underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible phobias—that few, if any, saw. A vivid love story, alone together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of its most remarkable couples.
Paul Getty. Teddy's extra-ordinary life story moves from the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the golden postwar years, where Paul and Teddy socialized with movie stars and the elite. But life with one of the world's richest men wasn't all glitz and glamour.
Though terrifically charismatic in person, Getty grew more miserly as his wealth increased. This was a life lived from the heart.
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
But vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time. Library Journal. The models for nicole and dick diver in fitzgerald’s tender is the Night, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Cole Porter, and a host of others.
Wealthy americans with homes in paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. New york times bestseller: “a marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era The New York Times Book Review.
Sara murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso he painted her both clothed and nude, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Peter Lawford Story: Life with the Kennedys, Monroe, and the Rat Pack
His story, as told by the woman who knew him best, is the always candid, sometimes shocking unveiling of the most intriguing show business personalities and significant political events of our time. Now fully updated and revised for 2014 this is a must read for anyone interested in Hollywood, film, and celebrity gossip.
Skyhorse publishing, sports publishing, along with our Arcade, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, Good Books, and Yucca imprints, and memoirs. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. The new york times and USA Today Bestseller! She possessed a stunning beauty. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist.
She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer.
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
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Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
In 2010, sergeant craig grossi was doing intelligence work for Marine RECON—the most elite fighters in the Corps—in a remote part of Afghanistan. After eating a piece of beef jerky Craig offered—against military regulations—the dog began to follow him. Months later, when Craig returned to the U. S. It was fred’s turn to save the wounded Marine from Post-Traumatic Stress.
Looks like you made a friend, " another Marine yelled. A poignant and inspiring tale of hope, and optimism, resilience, with a timeless message at its heart—"it is not what happens to us that matters, but how we respond to it"—Craig & Fred is a shining example of the power of love to transform our hearts and our lives.
While on patrol, he spotted a young dog "with a big goofy head and little legs" who didn’t seem vicious or run in a pack like most strays they’d encountered. Today, craig and fred are touching lives nationwide, Oregon, from a swampy campground in a Louisiana State Park to the streets of Portland, and everywhere in between.
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Look at You Now: How Keeping a Teenage Secret Changed My Life Forever
It is a story about how family dynamics work. This coming-of-age memoir is authentic and unforgettable. Publishers weekly“liz pryor’s refusal to bury the truth of her experiences is the greatest strength of her book. Halfway through her senior year of high school, siblings, she discovers that she is pregnant—a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, and community forever.
She writes like a natural, can balance humor and sorrow perfectly, and in Look at You Now, has written a pitch-perfect memoir. Darin strauss, author of Half a Life. Her honesty about a youthful error and desire to let that honesty define the rest of her life are both uplifting and inspiring. It’s about how much we can learn from people very much different from us.
An unsentimental yet moving coming-of-age memoir. Kirkus reviews“pryor has vivid memories of her time in the facility, unvarnished narrative, written as if by her seventeen-year-old self, and her straightforward, rings true.
I Found My Tribe: A Memoir
Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husband. As she tells the story of their marriage, from diagnosis to their long-standing precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for swimming in the wild Irish Sea--culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary.
An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, family, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, friends, the natural world, and the brightness of life. Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker and author husband Simon Fitzmaurice who has ALS and can only communicate with his eyes.
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
The emergency room is overcrowded as ever, with waves of alcohol and drug addicted patients as well as patients like Betty, a widow suffering chest pain, frail and alone. In the pediatric intensive care unit, the nurses wash the hair of a little girl to remove the smell of smoke from the house fire. In this age of fear, hate, and division, Christie Watson has written a book that reminds us of all that we share, and of the urgency of compassion.
And the stories of the geriatric ward--Gladys and older patients like her--show the plight of the most vulnerable members of our society. Through the smallest of actions, nurses provide vital care and kindness. All of us will experience illness in our lifetime, and we will all depend on the support and dignity that nurses offer us; yet the women and men who form the vanguard of our health care remain unsung.
. On the cancer wards, the nurses administer chemotherapy and, long after the medicine stops working, something more important--which Watson learns to recognize when her own father is dying of cancer.
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
Sensitive yet clear-eyed, clementine tells the fascinating story of a complex woman struggling to maintain her own identity while serving as the conscience and principal adviser to one of the most important figures in history. Sonia purnell has at long last given Clementine Churchill the biography she deserves.
Clementine is both the first real biography of this remarkable woman and a fascinating look inside their private world. Late in life, winston churchill claimed that victory in the Second World War would have been “impossible” without the woman who stood by his side for fifty-seven turbulent years. You know, "winston confided to FDR, "I tell Clemmie everything.
Through the ups and downs of his tumultuous career, at the expense of her family, in the tense days when he stood against Chamberlain and the many months when he helped inspire his fellow countrymen and women to keep strong and carry on, fatefully, Clementine made her husband’s career her mission, her health and, of her children.
Yet their marriage proved to be an exceptional partnership. Born into impecunious aristocracy, the young Clementine Hozier was the target of cruel snobbery. Engrossing…the first formal biography of a woman who has heretofore been relegated to the sidelines.