Sally Bedell Smith, Author . Random $29.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-375-50449-5
Smith, a Vanity Fair
contributing editor (and biographer of Princess Diana and Pamela Harriman, among others), does a workmanlike job of narrating familiar scenes from the Kennedy White House, aka Camelot. Although publicity for this volume is at...
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Sally Bedell Smith, Author Times Books $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8129-3030-6
Devotees who remember Princess Diana as a beautiful, warm-hearted mother dedicated to good works, whom an adulterous husband and the British Royal family unfairly victimized, will find little comfort in this treatment of her life. Smith relentlessly
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Sally Bedell Smith, Author Simon & Schuster $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61735-6
A big, riveting biography of William Paley, the Chicago cigarmaker's son who built the CBS television empire and reigned as its chairman until 1983, this blockbuster tears away the layers of self-aggrandizing mythology Paley has woven about himself.
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Sally Bedell Smith, Author Touchstone Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74917-0
CBS television tycoon Paley is portrayed as a narcissist, womanizer and tyrannical father in this well-documented biography, which is packed with TV and radio anecdotes and high-level intrigue. According to PW , this ``often unflattering but never...
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Sally Bedell Smith, Author Simon & Schuster $29.5 (496p) ISBN 978-0-684-80950-2
In 1994, Christopher Ogden, employed by Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman to ghost her autobiography, published Life of the Party. When she balked at exposing the spicier side of her career, he went ahead on his own, using her taped interviews,
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Sally Bedell Smith. Random, $30 (688p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6789-3
In her 60-year-reign, Elizabeth II has evolved “from beautiful ingénue to businesslike working mother to wise grandmother,” whose grave public persona conceals her spirit, intelligence, humor, and joie de vivre. In a respectful, engrossing, and...
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Sally Bedell Smith, read by Rosalyn Landor. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 17 CDs, 21.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-93417-8
Bedell’s biography charts the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her youthful receipt of the title “heiress presumptive” and first love to her ascension to the throne and transformation into England’s current monarch. Rosalyn Landor narrates in a...
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Sally Bedell Smith. Random House, $40 (720p) ISBN 978-0-525-51163-2
Biographer Smith (Prince Charles) spotlights the partnership between Queen Elizabeth II’s parents in this exhaustive yet intimate chronicle. In addition to his “lifelong struggle” with a stutter, Prince Albert, called Bertie by his family, endured...
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