Gounod

Arts & Photography

Harding, James

Music

Allen And Unwin

Erik Satie

Praeger Publishers

Although in "George" and "Emlyn", Emlyn Williams wrote two of the finest of all English theatrical autobiographies, they take the story no further than the author's 30th year when he was on the threshold of his first great success, "Night Must Fall". There were another 50 years to go: writing plays such as "The Corn is Green", in which he immortalized his inspired teacher, Miss Sarah Grace Cooke, and acting, not least in re-creating Dylan Thomas and Charles Dickens in his own one-man shows. James Harding, biographer of James Agate, Gerald de Maurier and, most recently, George Robey, not only completes the story, but brings fresh light to bear on incidents in Williams's early life, which, according to Noel Coward, was "the Cinderella story of all time". Welsh was his first language and when he broke out of the narrow, poverty-stricken, chapel-haunted atmosphere of his native village, it was a liberation. Similarities with another acting genius from Wales, Richard Burton, whom Williams encouraged, abound. James Harding's "Life", based on Williams's own papers, is a story of "a strange and interesting man", as John Mortimer summed him up.

Emlyn Williams: A Life

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

The Ox On The Roof (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)

Da Capo Press

The Ox on the Roof: Scenes from musical life in Paris in the twenties

Macdonald

Alpha Dogs is the story of the men from an enormously influential campaign business called Sawyer Miller who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard Nixon’s to George W. Bush’s. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as a filmmaker; Scott Miller, the son of an Ohio shoe salesman, had a knack for copywriting. Unlikely partners, they became a political powerhouse, directing democratic revolutions from the Philippines to Chile, steering a dozen presidents and prime ministers into office, and instilling the campaign ethic in corporate giants from Coca-Cola to Apple. Long after the firm had broken up and sold out, its alumni had moved into the White House, to dozens of foreign countries, and into the offices of America’s blue-chip chief executives. The men of Sawyer Miller were the Manhattan Project of spin politics: a small but extraordinary group who invented an American-style political campaigning and exported it around the world. In this lively and engaging narrative, James Harding tells the story of a few men whose political savvy, entrepreneurial drive, and sheer greed would alter the landscape of global politics. It is a story full of office intrigue, fierce rivalries, and disastrous miscalculations. And it is the tale of how world politics became American, and how American business became political.

Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin into a Global Business

History

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Alpha Dogs is the story of the men behind an enormously influential campaign business called the Sawyer Miller Group, men who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard M. Nixon's to Barack Obama's. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with dreams of a career as a filmmaker, and Scott Miller, the son of an Ohio shoe salesman, had a knack for copywriting. Unlikely partners, they became a political powerhouse, directing democratic revolutions from the Philippines to Chile, steering a dozen presidents and prime ministers into office, and instilling the campaign ethic in corporate giants such as Coca-Cola and Apple. Long after their firm, Sawyer Miller, had broken up and sold out, its alumni had moved into the White House, to dozens of foreign countries, and into the offices of America's blue-chip chief executives. The men of Sawyer Miller were the Manhattan Project of spin politics: a small but extraordinary group who invented American-style political campaigning and exported it around the world.
In this lively and engaging narrative, James Harding tells the story of a few men whose marketing savvy, entrepreneurial drive, and sheer greed would alter the landscape of global politics. It is a story full of office intrigue, fierce rivalries, and disastrous miscalculations. And it is the tale of how world politics became American and how American business became political.

Business & Money

Biography & History

1st hardcover edition fine book in fine dw condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Cochran

Performing Arts

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

Maurice Chevalier: His Life, 1888-1972

Wm. Collins Sons & Co.

200p hardback with unclipped dustjacket, excellent copy, first edition, well preserved, bright and clean, with protective removable cellophane cover

Jacques Tati: Frame by frame

Secker Warburg

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