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ISBN 1573227234 (1-57322-723-4)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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A biography of one of the greatest figures of the heyday of the American film industry, famous for his ruthlessness in business. Of this biography Billy Wilder said: "the best book I have ever read about Hollywood". [via]

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Goldwyn : A Biography: ISBN 0330392484 (0-330-39248-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
Goldwyn: A Biography: ISBN 0345365828 (0-345-36582-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Goldwyn : A Biography: ISBN 074740593X (0-7474-0593-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Goldwyn: A Biography: ISBN 0241128323 (0-241-12832-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
Goldwyn : A Biography: ISBN 0394510593 (0-394-51059-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Goldwyn: ISBN 0517056011 (0-517-05601-1)
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Goldwyn: A Biography: ISBN 1573227234 (1-57322-723-4)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

ISBN 9780425199091 (0-425-19909-6, 0425199096)

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Kate Remembered

ISBN 0425199096 (0-425-19909-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Published a mere 13 days after the death of Katharine Hepburn, Kate Remembered is best appreciated as a valentine of devoted friendship. It's a moving study of mutual trust and admiration between Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg and legendary Hollywood icon Hepburn, who'd established an instant rapport in 1983, beginning a 20-year conversation that blossomed into this enchanting "biographical memoir." As a casual but authoritative survey of Hepburn's career, Berg's book offers little new information to anyone who's read previous Hepburn biographies or Me: Stories of My Life, Hepburn's bestselling 1991 memoir. But the duality of Berg's title reinforces his purpose: "More than my remembrances," writes Berg in his author's note, "this book intends to convey hers." As such, Kate Remembered offers a rare, unvarnished portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential women, achieving a personal intimacy while making the reader feel welcomed in Hepburn's private world of privilege.

Although Berg (the acclaimed biographer of legendary editor Max Perkins, producer/mogul Samuel Goldwyn, and aviator Charles Lindbergh) had written all but the final paragraphs by 2001, Hepburn insisted this book remain unpublished until after her death, which came, in quiet dignity at age 96, on June 29, 2003. Given the book's pre-publication secrecy, it's hardly tabloid-worthy, serving instead to correct or clarify details from Hepburn's glory days--especially her long-term affair with Spencer Tracy--while offering choice bits of Hollywood gossip, Hepburn's frequently scathing assessments of other actors, and amusing encounters with such luminaries as Michael Jackson and Warren Beatty (both of whom appear as mock suitors with selfish motivations). It's a brisk read but a substantial one, richly emotional and as dignified as Hepburn herself, whose faults and foibles make her even more appealing than her beloved public persona. --Jeff Shannon [via]

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Lindbergh

ISBN 0330321692 (0-330-32169-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. A. Scott Berg's thorough new biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man. The son of ill-matched parents who separated when he was 6, he was painfully shy and emotionally guarded. "Aviation created a brotherhood of casual acquaintances ... in which he felt comfortable," writes Berg with characteristic perceptiveness.

Lindbergh's wife, the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, gave Berg unrestricted access to her husband's and her own voluminous personal papers--and he made good use of them to assess both the couple's relationship and their activities. Probably the most startling revelation is a brief but candid discussion of Anne's affair in the late 1950s with a New Jersey doctor, which helped assuage her need to vent emotions in a way her buttoned-up husband found insupportable. (During the horrendous days in 1932 when their 20-month-old son was kidnapped and killed, Berg notes, she never once saw Charles cry.) The biography is solid on all aspects of Lindbergh's career, including his notorious urging that America stay out of World War II; Berg rebuts charges that Lindbergh was a Nazi or a traitor, but rightly criticizes the anti-Semitism latent in some of his speeches. With this book, Berg succeeds in surveying Lindbergh's fascinating life and assessing its historic impact. [via]

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ISBN 9781573226219 (1-57322-621-1, 1573226211)

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Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

ISBN 1573226211 (1-57322-621-1)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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The man who invented the modern profession of book editing finally got his due, 31 years after his death, when this revelatory biography appeared. A. Scott Berg's detailed explication of Maxwell Perkins's work on the manuscripts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and a host of other important American writers shows how much the Scribner's editor contributed to their books, all the while maintaining that he only helped his authors find the best in themselves. This 1978 National Book Award winner is a thorough, carefully considered account of a seminal period in American publishing. [via]

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