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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous and controversial figures in the contemporary art world. Some of his photographs were praised for their startlingly beautiful composition, others condemned for their explicit sexuality. He was an artistic enigma. In 1989, three months after Mapplethorpe's death at forty-two, the Corcoran Gallery of Art canceled a show of his work, igniting a fierce battle over federal funding of "objectionable" art. When...
Author
Language
English
Description
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes . . . ' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling an unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1961
Language
English
Description
An intimate biography of the thirty-first First Lady of the United States, illustrated with family portraits. Here is Jacqueline Kennedy--the mischievous imaginative little girl; the "Debutante of the Year" who became a hard-working student at Vassar and later at the Sorbonne; the bride of the young bachelor senator from Massachusetts, and devoted mother of their two children.