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Book Review: Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
New biography provides unvarnished portrait of one of America's most famous trial attorneys.
Read More »Book Review: I Know Where I’m Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography by Charlotte Chandler
More a collage of quotes than a biography, Katharine Hepburn and her stories still fascinate.
Read More »Book Review: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
Bringing up children the Chinese way.
Read More »Book Review: My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand
With a very different Russell Brand everywhere these days, My Booky Wook provides a glimpse of his original anarchy in the UK.
Read More »Book Review: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil by Jerome Charyn
A look at Joe DiMaggio, the man behind the legend.
Read More »Book Review: Haywire, 2011 Edition by Brooke Hayward
A heartbreaking story of a child growing up in Hollywood's golden age, watching her family fall apart
Read More »Book Review: What If They Lived? by Phil Hall and Rory Leighton Aronsky
The fascinating question and projection of how some of Hollywood's young casualties might have fared had they lived longer.
Read More »Book Review: Sinatra, Gotti And Me by Tony Delvecchio and Rich Herschlag
The story of Tony Delvecchio, who ran Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant.
Read More »Book Review: Blood In Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood by John Lee Brook
How the Aryan Brotherhood went from a bunch of thugs to a criminal empire founded on violence.
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