Laurence Leamer, Author . Morrow $35 (896p) ISBN 978-0-688-16315-0
Journalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, complex psychology and persistent moral failures that lie behind the events he otherwise...
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Laurence Leamer, Author . Morrow $27.95 (638p) ISBN 978-0-06-620965-4
Picking up where his previous two bestsellers about the Kennedys left off, Leamer traces the clan's supposed downward spiral in the 40 years since John F. Kennedy's assassination. Early chapters concentrate on JFK's surviving brothers,...
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Laurence Leamer, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-312-33338-6
America's love affair with machine brutalism spills over into this somewhat smitten biography of its foremost icon. Leamer (The Kennedy Women
) chronicles Schwarzenegger's progress from bodybuilder to action-movie megastar, then California...
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Laurence Leamer, Author . Hyperion $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4013-2291-5
Leamer (The Kennedy Women
) reveals the secrets of the Palm Beach elite who reside behind the high walls and manicured hedges of this exclusive enclave. A winter resident since 1994, the author gains the trust of his subjects, playing tennis with...
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Laurence Leamer, Author Harper Paperbacks $19.99 (928p) ISBN 978-0-06-050288-1
Journalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, complex psychology and persistent moral failures that lie behind the events he otherwise...
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Laurence Leamer, Author Ivy Books $7.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1361-8
Five generations of Kennedys are chronicled in this unauthorized biography of the women who helped shape the image of this enduring dynasty. (June)
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Laurence Leamer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-06-015485-1
Leamer interviewed people who knew Bergman well, and he presents here a convincing portrait at odds with the idolized image of the screen. The author (The Paper Revolutionaries, etc.) covers the late actress's life and career from her birth in 1915,
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Laurence Leamer, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07404-3
The King of the Night--the entertainer adored by millions of devotees of The Tonight Show --is Killjoy of the Day, according to Leamer ( As Time Goes By , etc.) who in this lively unauthorized biography depicts ``the most uptight, nervous guy you'll
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Laurence Leamer, Author St. Martin's Press $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-92256-6
``The King of the Night--the entertainer adored by millions of devotees of the Tonight Show --is Killjoy of the Day, according to Leamer, who in this lively unauthorized biography depicts `the most uptight, nervous guy you'll ever want to meet,'''...
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Laurence Leamer, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-017505-4
Leamer, known primarily for his celebrity biographies like King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, here turns to country music. Music itself, however, is not his focus, but rather the stars who happen to be country musicians. Nineteen of the...
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Laurence Leamer. Holt/Times Books, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9471-8
Leamer’s newest (after King of the Night) is the riveting and compulsively readable tale of the epic battle between Don Blankenship, the man who essentially ran the West Virginia coal industry through his company Massey Energy, and two seemingly...
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Laurence Leamer. Morrow, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-245834-6
The prolific Leamer (The Price of Justice)swiftly traces the entwined lives of three Alabama men—civil rights lawyer Morris Dees, Gov. George Wallace, and top Klansman Robert Shelton—during and following the civil rights movement. Bookending this...
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Laurence Leamer. Foggy Bottom Books, $9.98 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-692-76574-6
Leamer’s latest novel takes a satirical look at the election process in the United States. The tale is narrated by Billy Baxter, the butler of one of the presidential candidates, Vincent V. Victor, a self-absorbed businessman, corporate raider,...
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Laurence Leamer. Putnam, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-5933-2808-8
Biographer Leamer (The Kennedy Women) showcases his knack for telling a rattling good tale in this vivid look at Truman Capote’s failed attempt to write “the greatest novel of the age.” The characters of his unrealized novel, Answered Prayers, were...
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Laurence Leamer. Putnam, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-54297-2
Biographer Leamer (Capote’s Women) serves up a breezy and gossip-filled group biography of Alfred Hitchcock’s blonde leading ladies. “To Hitchcock, blond women were the epitome of female beauty, and he fixated on them,” Leamer writes, delving into...
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