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Your Pain Is Real: Free Yourself from Chronic Pain with Breakthrough Medical Treatments

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Brady, Kathleen

Hiesiger M.D., Emile

Diseases & Physical Ailments

William Morrow

Inside out

Norton

Uses newly discovered letters and firsthand interviews makes this first definitive biography of one of America's foremost investigative journalists an enthralling work as well as an enlightening one.

Ida Tarbell Portrait

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

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Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball

''A beautiful portrait of someone with enormous talent as an entertainer and heart-breaking fragility as a woman. In giving Lucille Ball the serious appraisal she deserves, Kathleen Brady has really gotten behind the scenes and the cameras to provide an invaluable chronicle of several areas and eras of show business.'' - Molly Haskell ''The strengths of Lucille The Life of Lucille Ball are as manifold as they are manifest. Brady is meticulous.'' - Toronto Globe and Mail ''The best biography of Lucille Ball.'' - Nashville Banner

Humor & Entertainment

Blackstone Pub

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball is an entertaining, informative, scholarly, and fascinating biography of one of the most revered actresses in television history. Moving beyond the typical celebrity bio, author Kathleen Brady separates the actress from Lucy Ricardo, the antic, enduring character she created on I Love Lucy.
Brady is the only biographer to have spent extensive time in Jamestown, New York, Lucille Ball's hometown, where she interviewed Ball's childhood friends. Other interviews for the book included family, employees, Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Milton Berle, Maureen O'Hara, Maxine Andrews of the Andrews Sisters, and the late chairman of CBS Bill Paley. Kathleen Brady's definitive biography presents a human Lucille Ball the fans have never known: the would-be showgirl in New York, fired almost as soon as she was hired because she was too flat-chested and mousy; her great love for Desi Arnaz, their tempestuous marriage, the day she thought she had killed him with a hammer, and the incident that ended their marriage; Lucille as head of Desilu Studios, overriding the advice of her most trusted executives and agreeing to green light the pilots of Star Trek and Mission Impossible; and her run-in with the House on Un-American Activities Committee and fears of being black-listed.
Brady reveals that Lucille Ball's life was a roller coaster, going from disaster to victory and triumph to tragedy. As a young woman, Ball believed that she had to work had to make people like and appreciate her. As a star, she felt she had to work hard to maintain her popularity, and was also conscious that what her fans wanted from her was not herself, but Lucy Ricardo.
Of the first edition of this book, published by Hyperion in 1994, critic Molly Haskell wrote: "It's a beautiful portrait of someone with enormous talent as an entertainer and heartbreaking fragility as a woman. In giving Lucille Ball the serious appraisal she deserves, Kathleen Brady has really gotten behind the scenes and the cameras to provide an invaluable chronicle of several areas and eras of show business."
New to this edition of Lucille is an introductory essay focusing on the place of the character of Lucy Ricardo in the history of comedy, going back to the traditions of the Italian commedia dell'arte and forward to the end of the 20th century. In this essay, Lucille Ball is compared to other key female figures in comedy like Mabel Normand, Mae West, Frannie Brice, Gilda Radner, and Fran Drescher. As the author writes, "Lucille Ball was a revolutionary figure because Lucy Ricardo was the first female character to combine the knock-about physical comedy of vaudeville and music halls (and 15th century carnivals) while being beautiful, feminine, and sweetly appealing." This edition also includes many new photographs from various sources.

Arts & Literature

Hyperion

From her childhood, when abandonment stirred in her a relentless drive for love and attention, through her struggling years in vaudeville, radio, and films to the stormy personal and professional relationship with Desi Arnaz that made her a star and a business mogul, this definitive biography of Lucille Ball tells the complete story of a complex and passionate woman. Photos.

In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America’s great journalists. Ida Tarbell’s generation called her “a muckraker” (the term was Theodore Roosevelt’s, and he didn’t intend it as a compliment), but in our time she would have been known as “an investigative reporter,” with the celebrity of Woodward and Bernstein. By any description, Ida Tarbell was one of the most powerful women of her time in the United States: admired, feared, hated. When her History of the Standard Oil Company was published, first in McClure’s Magazine and then as a book (1904), it shook the Rockefeller interests, caused national outrage, and led the Supreme Court to fragment the giant monopoly. A journalist of extraordinary intelligence, accuracy, and courage, she was also the author of the influential and popular books on Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln, and her hundreds of articles dealt with public figures such as Louis Pateur and Emile Zola, and contemporary issues such as tariff policy and labor. During her long life, she knew Teddy Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Henry James, Samuel McClure, Lincoln Stephens, Herbert Hoover, and many other prominent Americans. She achieved more than almost any woman of her generation, but she was an antisuffragist, believing that the traditional roles of wife and mother were more important than public life. She ultimately defended the business interests she had once attacked. To this day, her opposition to women’s rights disturbs some feminists. Kathleen Brady writes of her: “[She did not have] the flinty stuff of which the cutting edge of any revolution is made. . . . Yet she was called to achievement in a day when women were called only to exist. Her triumph was that she succeeded. Her tragedy ws that she was never to know it.”

Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker

Community & Culture

University of Pittsburgh Press

A history of the complex and sometimes contradictory life and career of one of America's most beloved comediennes chronicles her troubled marriage with Desi Arnaz, her early career in vaudeville, and her success in television. Reprint.

Watson-Guptill Pubns

In paintings of flora, fauna and edgy interiors, both human and architectural, Wade Schuman uses a macro to micro view to describe and comment on our complex relationship to life and our surroundings. In three interrelated bodies of painting, Histories, Interiors and Observations, his personal iconography and deeply poetic conceptual approach to representation produces a kaleidoscopic reality punctuated by deep breaths of quiet beauty.

Wade Schuman: Aspects Of View

Arts & Photography

Phillips, Owen

Schuman, Wade

Individual Artists

Forum Gallery, New York

iUniverse, Inc.

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Books by Brady, Kathleen

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Your Pain Is Real: Free Yourself from Chronic Pain with Breakthrough Medical Treatments

Inside out

Ida Tarbell Portrait

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball

Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball

Wade Schuman: Aspects Of View

Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball