Books by Carol Gelderman and Complete Book Reviews
Carol Gelderman, Author Walker & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1318-6
Gelderman approaches her subjects as a college English professor (University of New Orleans) rather than a political scientist, in this concise, fact-filled history of modern presidential speechifying. Before Teddy Roosevelt, Gelderman notes,...
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Carol Gelderman, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (430p) ISBN 978-0-312-00565-8
This first comprehensive biography of Mary McCarthy surveys the career of a prominent American literary figure of the past 50 years. Having interviewed McCarthy and many of her contemporaries and having had access to previously unavailable...
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Carol Gelderman, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-03482-5
In the first comprehensive biography of the prominent American literary figure, ``Gelderman is particularly successful in balancing McCarthy's competitiveness, sharp tongue and relentless pen with her impulsiveness, generosity, charm, domesticity...
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Carol Gelderman, Author Crown Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-58720-1
Author of biographies of Mary McCarthy and Henry Ford, Gelderman has produced an admiring, bland account of novelist Louis Auchincloss (b. 1917), witty observer of Manhattan's rich and powerful. Reared by a strict, overprotective mother and a sweet-n
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