Scandal in Biography Books

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An in-depth biography of Harriet Spencer, the sister of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, describes the colorful life of one of the most glamorous and notorious figures of the Regency era, detailing her loveless marriage, illicit affairs, and involvement in the political intrigue, scandals, and dramatic events of her time. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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An explosive, firsthand account of the scandal that rocked the Bush administration following the improper 2006 firing of seven U.S. Attorneys describes the author's stellar legal career, his rise to become U.S. Attorney to try federal cases in New Mexico, and the loss of his job after his refusal to indict some high-level opposition politicians prior to the 2006 elections.

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In 1828, and at the behest of the Duke of Wellington, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and, with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England. Reprint.

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In 1828, and at the behest of the Duke of Wellington, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and, with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.

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Includes persons and incidents from the worlds of politics, business, sports, religion, the arts, show business, and the military which have resulted in special historical significance.

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Clergyman and detective Father Brown is embroiled in nine mysteries and matches wits with a psychic, a blackmailer, a vampire, and an assorted array of criminals.

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Includes persons and incidents from the worlds of politics, business, sports, religion, the arts, show business, and the military which have resulted in special historical significance.

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The deaths of film celebrities are sometimes even more fascinating than their lives. Hollywood visitors and natives are often drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, the beautiful, and the notorious. This book can make finding those locations simple. These fifteen driving tours cover over 500 sites relating to celebrity deaths and scandals. Each tour covers a specific area of the world's film capital, from Sunset Strip to Bel Air, giving specific directions to each location on the tour. Sites include famous graves, like Rudolph Valentino's, where the Lady in Black made her annual pilgrimage for thirty years; houses and businesses said to be haunted by those as famous in death as they were in life; locations of famous murders and deaths, from William Desmond Taylor to John Belushi; and scandalous location like the infamous Francis Brothel. Tips for safe and enjoyable touring are also included, and the tours allow everyone from the mildly curious to the completely morbid to find some of Hollywood's darkest corners.

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An utterly absorbing chronicle of the life and times of an esteemed college professor and literary critic and the ivory tower sex scandal that broke him, <b>The Scarlet Professor</b><i> </i>offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.<br><br>During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends. In <b>The Scarlet Professor</b><i>, </i>Barry Werth has deftly captured the essence of a conflicted man and illuminated a pivotal period in the history of Gay America.

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Mixing rigorous scholarship with helpings of both wit and pastoral care, Amy-Jill Levine reveals Jesus as THE MISUNDERSTOOD JEW. Levine shows how Christians often misunderstand Judaism in general, misunderstand the New Testament in particular, and thus yank Jesus out of his Jewish context--resulting in intolerance (and sometimes outright hatred) of Jews. She doesn't let Jews off the hook either, cutting through willful ignorance of Jesus and his message. A Jewish scholar who teaches in a primarily Protestant divinity school in Nashville, Tennessee--the buckle of the Bible Belt--Levine offers a unique, deeper understanding of who Jesus was and what he taught. There's no getting around the fact that Christianity started as a Jewish movement before spreading to the Gentiles of the Mediterranean. Levine helps readers understand the culture in which Jesus grew up and that he celebrated--the diet and dress of first-century Palestine, Jewish holidays and customs, the numerous public roles of Jewish women, and the rituals of the Temple. All those head-scratching sayings and acts of Jesus's that have befuddled Bible readers for generations suddenly make sense in light of his Jewish heritage. Levine also takes an unflinching look at modern anti-Jewish readings of the New Testament, including the stereotyping of Judaism as legalistic, purity-obsessed, Temple-dominated, xenophobic, violent, greedy, and misogynist. She shows how Christian theologians often make Judaism look backward and antiquated so that Christianity can, in contrast, look progressive and superior. Levine's candor will prompt much-needed conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the Gospels, and the New Testament.

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The nation's leading minister stands accused of adultery. He vehemently denies the charge but confesses to being on "the ragged edge of despair." His alleged lover is a woman of mystical faith, nearly "Catholic" in her piety. Her husband, a famous writer, sues the minister for damages. A six-month trial ends inconclusively, but it holds the nation in thrall. It produces gripping drama, scathing cartoons, and soul-searching editorials. Trials of Intimacy is the story of a scandal that shook American culture to the core in the 1870s because the key players were such vaunted moral leaders. In that respect there has never been another case like it -- except The Scarlet Letter, to which it was constantly compared. Henry Ward Beecher was pastor of Brooklyn's Plymouth, Church and for many the "representative man" of' mid-nineteenth-century America. Elizabeth Tilton was the wife of Beecher's longtime intimate friend Theodore. His accusation of "criminal conversation" between Henry and Elizabeth confronted the American public with entirely new dilemmas about religion and intimacy, privacy anti publicity, reputation and celebrity. The scandal spotlighted a series of comic and tragic loves and betrayals among these three figures, with a supporting cast that included Victoria Woodhull, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. To readers at the time, the Beecher-Tilton Scandal was an irresistible mystery. Richard Fox puts his readers into that same reverberating story, while offering it as a timeless tale of love, deception, faith, and the confounding indeterminacy of truth. Trials of Intimacy revises our conception of nineteenth-century morals and passions. And it is an American historyrichly resonant with present-day dramas.

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A behind-the-scenes story of Armstrong's efforts to achieve his sixth Tour de France victory describes his renewed training efforts after a near loss in 2003, his efforts to rebuild after a divorce, and the competitive factors that particularly challenged his 2004 season, with updated information on his seventh Tour victory, doping allegations, and his retirement from the sport. Reprint.

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The author revists the eighteenth-century "Jezebel of Virginia" case to recreate one of the most sensational trials in American history in which Nancy Randolph, a young woman from one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families in Virginia, played a key role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused of fathering and killing an illegitimate child.

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Traces the high-society breakup of Lord and Lady Worsley, describing their scandalous sexual affairs, the Criminal Conversation trial through which Sir Richard Worsley attempted to sue his wife's lover, and the unexpected verdict that marked history's first celebrity divorce. 25,000 first printing.

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Mike Warnke, the confessed defector from the Enemy's elite corps, parlayed his grisly tales of satanism into a 20-year success that evaporated in 1992 when Cornerstone magazine exposed his story as a fraud. Here the author of the original expose examines how Warnke was able to fool the public for so long.