Christopher Sandford, Author . Carroll & Graf $15 (370p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1368-4
Having written books on Kurt Cobain, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Sting, among others, Sandford is no stranger to the rock bio and attacks his newest venture with skill and style. Despite limited access to "the Human Riff,"
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Christopher Sandford, Author . Carroll & Graf $26.95 (430p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1614-2
McCartney's success has long affronted rock aesthetes as proof that facile talent and showmanship trump soulfulness, an opinion that will be complicated, but not reversed, by this serviceable biography. Sandford, a music journalist and...
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Christopher Sandford, Author . Palgrave Macmillan $29.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-230-60778-1
Celebrity biographer Sandford (McCartney
, etc.) tackles the life of director Roman Polanski, but only scratches the surface of one of cinema’s most controversial figures. Born in Paris in 1933, Polanski, with his family, moved to Poland in...
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Christopher Sandford. Prometheus Books, $25.95 (326p) ISBN 978-1-61614-935-2
Sandford (Masters of Mystery) provides a glimpse behind the sheen of diplomacy with this examination of the relationship between Harold Macmillan and Jack Kennedy. Personal letters and telegrams, private communications during extreme political...
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Christopher Sandford. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-07956-5
The subject of how the creator of Sherlock Holmes emulated his famous detective in real life is not a new one, and this sloppy account by biographer Sandford (Union Jack) of two of Conan Doyle’s most famous inquiries suffers by comparison with the...
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Christopher Sandford, Author Da Capo Press $17.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-306-80854-8
Rock legend David Bowie, famed for his chameleonlike personality changes both onstage and off, once said that he ""couldn't decide whether I was writing the characters or the characters were writing me."" Similarly, the characters populating this...
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Christopher Sandford, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0603-7
His critics find him pretentious, his admirers think him a genius and some just want him to get the Police back together. Sting, one of rock's most successful musicians, has never lacked for attention in a career that's now more than two decades...
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Christopher Sandford, Author, Christopher Sanford, Author Soho Press $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-939149-73-5
Physician Sanford debuts with a rather callow first-person account of an intern's struggle through his first year at a California hospital. His narrative is distractingly anecdotal, relaying humor, melodrama, the usual graphic descriptions and even...
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