Interviews with Kato Kaelin offer his perspective on the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the relationship between O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson

Kato Kaelin: The Whole Truth (The Real Story of O.J., Nicole, and Kato from the Actual Tapes)

MARC ELIOT

Legal History

Harper Prism

Chronicles Brockovich's life, discussing her marriages, divorces, and children; her battle on behalf of the residents of Hinkley, California; and the aftermath of the fame she received due to the movie portraying her story.

Take It from Me: Life's a Struggle But You Can Win

Self-Help

Erin Brockovich

Motivational

McGraw=Hill

AS FEATURED IN LADIES HOME JOURNAL, AND COSMOPOLITAN, AND ON "TODAY" "Inspiring!"Julia Roberts "Right up there with the best."Publishers Weekly "An amazingly upbeat memoir."Us Weekly "As heartfelt as it is breathless."Kirkus Reviews "If you saw Erin Brockovich, you should read this book."Library Journal Erin Brockovich delivers her irrepressible spirit and down-to-earth wisdom in Take It from Me, an inspiring trove of stories, lessons, and motivational strategies anyone can use to summon their inner strength and free the winning forces that lie within us all.

Take It From Me : Life's a Struggle But You Can Win

Everyone remembers him as the creator of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bambi, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. His films and characters inspired the great Disney theme parks. A creative genius, Walt Disney brought love and laughter to children everywhere. Now for the first time, Marc Eliot presents the real Walt Disney. The author reveals Walt Disney's twenty-five-year association with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, serving as a Hollywood-based official informant before being promoted to the rank of Special Agent in Charge, rooting out Communists, subversives, and Jews. A lifelong anti-Semite, he absorbed his prejudice from his father, a strict fundamentalist who believed in corporal punishment and forced child labor. Walt Disney's phobic behavior is examined in detail, as is his obsessive hand-washing, heavy drinking, and sexual inadequacies. Unwilling to accept his father's violence as a form of love, and unwilling to "prove" his own identity, he feared he had actually been adopted in infancy and was illegitimate. He spent a lifetime searching for his real mother. Marc Eliot shows how these psycho-sexual conflicts drove Walt to the depths of lifelong despair and how they found expression in his "classic" animated characters and films, now so deeply embedded in American culture. In fact, they were created by a man who used the wealth and prestige they gave him to mold a nightmare empire of vengeance and power. Told against a panoramic view of Hollywood's golden age of glamour and backdoor politics, Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince is a fascinating work that concludes with a look into the Disney empire as it exists today.

Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Birch Lane Press

Provides a different portrait of Disney, detailing his involvment with anti-Semitic organizations and discussing his alcoholism, sexual difficulties, and nervous breakdowns

Walt Disney, Hollywood's dark Prince: a biography

Andre Deutsch

Paul Simon: A Life

wiley

One of the very best treatments of the relationship of money to popular music in American popular culture from the beginning of the century to the late 1980's. Rockonomics is particularly strong on the history of the publishing giants ASCAP and BMI,  and the relationship of music to the advertising industry. Although the presentation is weakened slightly by chapters that are merely numbered and not named, the index does allow you to zoom in on periods, issues, or musicians of interest and skip around (as we musicians are prone to do when reading). But all in all, this clears the cigar smoke of industry fat-cats from the room, and is essential reading for anyone who wants to see "duh big picture about duh biz."

Rockonomics : The Money Behind the Music Hardcover Marc Eliot

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Omnibus Press

I decided to write this book the day after Phil Ochs killed himself. I began to map out a journey, a time-trip through Phil's life. I wanted to talk to anyone who knew him at all, and everyone who knew him well. I began with the family, spending an afternoon in the country with Sonny, Phil's sister. I flew to Los Angeles and spent a week with Michael Ochs, his brother, staying at his house, talking through the nights and days, my tape recorder running constantly. Together we pored over the archives he'd kept of Phil's career. We found old pictures, forgotten letters; we listened to acetates of Phil singing songs he' never released. As the days passed, the gaps in Michael's memory began to fill in. We made a list of people I should see. I started making arrangements.

Phil Ochs: Death of a Rebel

Music Sales+ Corporation

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

Aurum

Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer’s delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco—and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed. Donna Summer was born on New Year’s Eve in Boston. Her childhood was filled with music. Inspired by Mahalia Jackson, she began singing in church choirs at the age of ten. A few years later she joined a Boston rock group, and by the end of the 1960s she was living the life of an artist in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Soon after, Donna left the United States to join the German cast of Hair. She was still in her teens, a shy, ordinary girl who was suddenly feeling the jolt of the sexual revolution. She lived in Germany for seven and a half years, modeling, acting, falling in love, getting married, and giving birth to a daughter. She met a producer named Giorgio Moroder, and together they created a song called “Love to Love You Baby.” It became one of the world’s premier disco hits. Donna Summer returned to America as a star, a “sex goddess” who bore little resemblance to her own sense of who she was. She describes what that personal transformation felt like from the white-hot center of the disco era, and how, over the next two decades, it contributed to a sometimes harrowing spiritual journey. With heart and humor, Donna Summer relives the decadent days of disco and shows how she transcended them. This is the inspiring tale of an “ordinary girl” on an extraordinary journey.

Ordinary Girl: The Journey

Donna Summer

Villard

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