Laurence Leamer Libri

L'autore Laurence Leamer esplora le intricate relazioni e gli scandali che circondano il romanzo inedito di Truman Capote, "Answered Prayers". Quest'opera approfondisce i segreti oscuri e il tragico fascino delle donne che Capote chiamava le sue cigni—Barbara Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest e Lee Radziwill—ognuna figura di spicco nella New York di metà secolo. Capote, affascinato dalla loro bellezza e dal loro charme, si insinuò nelle loro vite, solo per tradirle in modo scioccante. Leamer esamina il periodo successivo ai successi di Capote con "Colazione da Tiffany" e "A sangue freddo", durante il quale affrontò un blocco dello scrittore mentre godeva della compagnia dei suoi amici facoltosi. Ispirato dalle loro vite stravaganti, intraprese quello che immaginava come il suo capolavoro. Tuttavia, quando pubblicò estratti su Esquire, i ritratti velati dei suoi più stretti confidente portarono a conseguenze devastanti. Le reazioni interruppero i suoi legami con l'alta società e segnarono il declino di un mondo già in dissoluzione. Attraverso racconti dettagliati, Leamer cattura l'essenza di queste donne affascinanti, le loro amicizie con Capote e l'ambizione sfortunata di creare un capolavoro letterario.

Of all Ingrid Bergman's classic roles, none was as dramatic as her own life. As Time Goes By is the stunning and sometimes shocking story of this talented actress. Miniseries rights optioned by Warner Brothers. 32-page photo insert.

The author of three Kennedy bestsellers presents the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his rise to fame and power, and his marriage to Maria Shriver.

This work chronicles five generations of America's pre-eminent political dynasty, painting in-depth portraits of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, giving a greater insight into the lives of the Kennedy men.

"A Fresh And Unvarnished Portrait Of A Fascinating, Talented, And Deeply Flawed Family."—Boston HeraldLaurence Leamer was granted unheralded access to private Kennedy papers, and he interviewed family and old friends, many of whom had never been interviewed before, for this incredible portrait of the women in America’s "royal family." From Bridget Murphy, the foremother who touched shore at East Boston in 1849, to the intelligent, independent Kennedy women of today, Laurence Leamer tells their unforgettable stories.Here are the private thoughts of Kathleen, the flirtatious debutante in prewar England . . . the truth behind Joe Kennedy’s insistence that his mildly retarded daughter, Rosemary, be lobotomized . . . the real story behind Joan and Ted’s whirlwind romance . . . Jackie’s desire for a divorce from JFK in the 1950s . . . Pat Lawford’s disastrous Hollywood marriage . . . how Caroline discovered her cousin David’s death by overdose, and more.Tough enough to withstand the unimaginable, these Kennedy women soldier on in the name of their extraordinary family and what they believe is right.

The bestselling author of The Kennedy Women presents a gripping true story of a racially motivated murder in 1981 and the trials that dismantled a notorious American organization—the Ku Klux Klan. In March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles, members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America, sought revenge after a predominantly black jury failed to reach a verdict in a case involving a black defendant. They abducted nineteen-year-old Michael Donald, brutally murdered him, and left his body hanging from a tree in a racially mixed neighborhood. Hays was arrested, charged, and sentenced to death—marking the first time in over fifty years that Alabama imposed such a sentence on a white man for killing a black man. Morris Dees, a renowned civil rights lawyer and cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a civil suit on behalf of Michael's mother against the local Klan unit and the UKA, leading to a trial that exposed the Klan's conspiracy and ultimately dealt a severe blow to its operations. Through extensive interviews and archival research, the narrative details two pivotal trials, revealing the KKK's motives and the enduring impact of its ideology on race relations in America. The book also includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs.

Bestselling author Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated on the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. In Hitchcock’s Blondes, Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director’s career—from his early days in the British film industry to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren—who starred in fourteen of Hitchcock’s most notable films—we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself. “His” blondes knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone. This is an intimate, revealing look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit.