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“barbara leaming”

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  • Churchill Defiant

    Fighting On

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life.In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and the bare-knuckled political and personal battles that ensued. Her ground-breaking biography Jack Kennedy: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marilyn Monroe

    A Biography

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Mrs. Kennedy

    The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern history's most spectacular dramas.Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jack Kennedy

    The Education of a Statesman

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    "An absorbing and enjoyable book."—New York Times Book ReviewDrawing on new primary sources, this biography is the first to detail the influence of British history, literature, and culture—in particular, the ideas of Winston Churchill—on America's thirty-fifth president. For the first time we trace the friendships and forces that led to the White House and shaped Kennedy's actions there. In this ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Kick Kennedy

    The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    A New York Times–bestselling biographer "evokes the luminous spirit of Kick Kennedy" in this account of the beloved socialite and sister of JFK ( Vanity Fair).Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

    The Untold Story

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    " Provocative . . . Jackie's post-1963 actions make a new kind of sense . . . With a diagnosis of PTSD in mind, incidents once criticized . . . can be reassessed." — USA TodayThe instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary biography is the first book to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    If This Was Happiness

    A Biography of Rita Hayworth

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Anna Fields ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s dancing partner at an early age, suffering sexual and ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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    Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 23 min

    The untold story of how one woman's life was changed forever in a matter of seconds by a horrific trauma.Barbara Leaming's extraordinary and deeply sensitive biography is the first book to document Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' brutal, lonely and valiant thirty-one year struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that followed JFK's assassination.Here is the woman as she has never been seen ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Bette Davis

    A Biography

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Grace Conlin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    She was the tempestuous, strong-willed woman who ignited the movie screen with her legendary performances in Of Human Bondage, Jezebel, and All About Eve. Off-camera, Bette Davis fought endless contractual battles with studios and survived four disastrous marriages, earning a larger-than-life reputation as an actress to be reckoned with. In this extraordinary biography, fans and film historians ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mrs. Kennedy

    The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 29 min

    New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern history's most spectacular dramas.Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Kick Kennedy

    The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Eliza Foss ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 17 min

    Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father’s acknowledged “favorite of all the children” and her brother Jack’s “psychological twin.” She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace.The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Orson Welles

    A Biography

    by Barbara Leaming ...
    Narrated by Grace Conlin ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 20 min

    Genius, artist, monstre sacr├®, Orson Welles had one of the most brilliant and tempestuous careers in show business. Here he confides his most intimate feelings and recollections of his extraordinary life. With remarkable detail and intimacy, Barbara Leaming reveals the private Welles: from child prodigy and young lion in Dublin and New York, to the succ├¿s de scandale of his The War of the Worlds ... Read more

    $31.95 USD