Books by Axel Madsen and Complete Book Reviews
Axel Madsen, Author Holt McDougal $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1639-0
French designer Gabrielle ``Coco'' Chanel (1883-1971) created elegant women's clothing and had a succession of celebrated friends and lovers from Winston Churchill to Igor Stravinsky. ``Madsen does a commendable job of ferreting out the seeming...
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Axel Madsen, Author John Wiley & Sons $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-471-28327-0
In the early 1900s, entrepreneurs by the hundreds were looking for ways to build the best horseless carriage that would lead to a pot of gold. What set Durant apart from other would-be car czars was that, long before others caught on, he understood...
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Axel Madsen, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $24.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-07-039457-5
Russian-born Delaunay (1885-1979), nee Stein, a pioneer of modernism in the Paris of Picasso and Matisse, commands attention as an artist and a feminist by example (if not in word or posture). Her radiant canvases, with their sun-like disks of...
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Axel Madsen, Author Arbor House Publishing $18.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-87795-946-5
This dual biography calls to mind a collage, with large parts derived respectively from Gloria Swanson's Swanson on Swanson and from the multiple books on the Kennedy family. Moving back and forth in time, Madsen (Billy Wilder, John Huston)...
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Axel Madsen, Author Pharos Books $18.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-88687-433-9
Clara Malraux was 25 and her husband Andre 22 when in 1923 they sailed from Marseilles to Indochina. They planned to travel into the Cambodian jungle, locate the ruins of Banteai Srey (a temple), steal a few examples of Khmer temple art and continue
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Axel Madsen, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (434p) ISBN 978-0-06-017997-7
Madsen ( Chanel ) picks a tough subject in movie legend Barbara Stanwyck, who was born in Brooklyn in 1907 and orphaned at age three. She scrambled up through the Broadway chorus line and, by the time she reached Hollywood, was such a hard worker...
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Axel Madsen, Author, Alex Madsen, Author Henry Holt & Company $21.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-8050-0961-3
When it was suggested to the elderly Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971) that she see a psychiatrist, she replied, ``I, who never told the truth to my priest?'' In this full-length, very readable biography of Coco, as the legendary French designer was...
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Axel Madsen, Author, Madsen, Author John Wiley & Sons $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-471-38503-5
Expertly situating his subject's accomplishments in the context of late 18th- and early 19th-century commercial and geopolitical expansion, Madsen (Chanel; Gloria and Joe) weighs in with an absorbing biography of one of 19th-century America's most...
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