Books by Steven Levingston and Complete Book Reviews
Steven Levingston. Doubleday, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-53603-5
The titular figure in this lively popular history is Gabrielle Bompard, a young woman who became infamous as the accomplice in a garish and notorious murder in 1889 Paris. Mistress of the con man Michel Eyraud, Bompard and her tragic story became a...
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Steven Levingston. Hachette, $28 (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-26739-7
Levingston (Little Demon in the City of Light), nonfiction book editor at the Washington Post, comprehensively evaluates the antagonistic interplay of Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy during the civil rights movement. He...
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Steven Levingston. Hachette, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-48786-3
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were a match made in heaven, according to this starry-eyed study of bromantic leadership. Washington Post books editor Levingston (Kennedy and King) styles them as an odd couple who overcame a...
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