Chaplin Autobiography Offers Bitter Yet Amusing Portrait
Charles Chaplin recalls his start with Mack Sennet in 1914 and the birth of a star created by mismatched costume. The book blends amusement with bitterness over paternity suits and alleged Communist ties, while detailing silent film era figures like Fairbanks, Davies, and Gilbert.
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Charles Chaplin
Simon & Schuster
Mack Sennet
Sennett
Chaplin
Oona O'Neil
United States
Lica Grey
Paulette Goddard
U. S
Douglas Fairbanks
Marion Davies
John Gilbert
Notable Paperbacks Run Gamut of Politics and Passion
A slate of Signet and Pocket Books releases features Ralph G. Martin on 1912 and 1932 conventions, a Renaissance Italy tale The Mercenary, Abraham Lincoln documentary, romance Where Love Has Gone, costumed Napoleon years The Last Love, Our Mother's House, The Living Reed, and Pearl Buck's Far East family saga.
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Ralph G. Martin
Italy
Gianpaolo Baglioni
Machiavelli
Charles Durbis
Signet
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Dom Fehrenbacher
Signet Classic
Lana Turner
Harold Robbins
Pocket
Napoleon
St. Helena
Thomas B. Costain
Pocket Books
Julian Gloag
Living Reed
Far East
Pearl Buck
Japan
China
Korea
Paperback Best Sellers and Notable Titles Listed
A list of popular novels and nonfiction from various authors includes Michener The Group, McCarthy The Glasser DuMaurier The Glass Blower and Baldwin The Fire Next Time among others plus biographies and reportage like A Day in the Life of President Kennedy and Where I Stand.
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Michener
McCarthy
DuMaurier
Rascal
North
Baldwin
Reid
Demaris
Elizabeth Appleton
O'Hara
Smith
Killens
Schiffer the
Vixens
Yerby
FOXES
Harrow
Sex
Greene Harlow
Shulman
Hochhuth
MacInnes
Halevy
President Kennedy
Bishop
Goldwater
Writing Of T.R Lincoln In Signet Classics Series
Two Signet Classics paperbacks on Middletown bookstore shelves feature Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln works. Other titles span Longfellow to Kipling. Notable entries include Roosevelt's Letters to His Children and Lincoln: A Documentary Portrait with Fehrenbacher introduction.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Signet Classics
Middletown
Longfellow
Kipling
White House
Sagamore Hill
Peter Rabbit
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Stanford University
Lincoln
Mirror of Bohemian Past in Hecht Letters
Ben Hecht compiles seven reminiscences in Letters From Bohemia about friends who predeceased him. He chronicles Gene Fowler H L Mencken Sherwood Anderson Maxwell Bodenheim George Grosz George Antheil and Charlie MacArthur. The book recalls a vivid era of nonconformist artists and their exuberant zest for life.
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Bohemia
Ben Hecht
Doubleday
Ofte
Hecht
Gene Fowler
H. L. Mencken
Sherwood Anderson
Maxwell Bodenheim
George Grosz
George Antheil
Charlie MacArthur
The futility of riches noted in Bible and tax form
The saying argues that wealth brings little lasting value, echoed in both sacred scripture and modern tax forms. It contrasts spiritual counsel with fiscal measures, suggesting money’s limits and the search for meaning beyond material wealth.
Best Seller List Captures Week’s Top Hardcovers
Publisher’s Weekly compiles a list of hardcover best sellers across fiction and non fiction. The fiction section features titles by Le Carre Vidal Auchincloss Southern Hof fenberg and Uris. Non fiction includes A Moveable Feast Harlow Wise and Ross Four Days and a tribute to John F Kennedy.
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Julian
Vidal
Justin
Auchincloss
CANDY
Southern and Hoffenberg
Uris
Hemingway
Harlow
Shulman
Wise and
Ross
John F. Kennedy
Salinger and
Vanocur
Publisher's Weekly
Ark of Empire The American Frontier 1784 1803 review
Dale Van Every surveys postwar America in Ark of Empire The American Frontier 1784 1803 explaining how border pressures from Britain Spain and native alliances tested the young United States as settlers moved along Daniel Boone s Wilderness Road and the Ohio River while Western trade and unity remained unresolved.
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Dale van Every
Mentor
United States of America
England
van Every
West
Daniel Boone
Wilderness
Ohio River
Britain
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NEW
HER Majesty’s Secret Service
Fleming
Eden
Metalious
Melampy
Westinghouse
Marianne Micks
Western College For Women At
Oxford
T.R
Lincoln In
Horace Gregory
Howard Moss
the New Yorker
Mr. Moss
Lear
Joyce
Beerbohm
Beckett
Ionesco
Irving Howe
Hunter College
Rudyard Kipling
C. A. Bodelsen
University of Copenhagen
Voguf
Voth
LeCarre
Mississippi
Continental Congress
Rent Blue Lustre Electric
G. C. Murphy CO
Central
Sam Bartels
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