Charles Higham, Author . Carroll & Graf $25.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-78671-889-4
It would be difficult to write a tedious account of beautiful and appealing Jennie Jerome (1854–1921), who gave birth to future British prime minister Winston Churchill, but celebrity biographer Higham (The Duchess of Windsor
) has managed to...
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Charles Higham, Author . New Millennium $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-932407-40-2
It's the nature of conspiracy theories to drag in ever more suspects, and this study of Lincoln's assassination casts a wide net indeed. Higham (American Swastika
) implicates not only John Wilkes Booth's band of conspirators, but...
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Charles Higham, Author . Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace $24.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-299-20360-3
Although the author, a veteran Hollywood biographer (Kate
; Bette
; Marlene
), claims to have solved the murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor (1872–1922), this overly melodramatic account of his life and death sheds little...
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Charles Higham, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $17.95 (482p) ISBN 978-0-07-028801-0
The disclosures here strain credibility. Bessie Wallis Warfield, an illegitimate child, was born in 1895 to a prominent Baltimore family. She grew up ferociously ambitious, married bisexual Navy officer Winfield Spencer in 1916, traveled to China...
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Charles Higham, Author Putnam Publishing Group $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-13859-1
Though the author claims he aims to show his subject's ``crucial role not only in aviation and movie-making but in major political affairs,'' this gossipy book mainly concerns the bisexual lusts and personal quirks of Howard Hughes (1905-1976). In...
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Charles Higham, Author, Louis B. Mayer, Author Dutton Books $25 (488p) ISBN 978-1-55611-345-1
Movie mogul Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) is often depicted as a lecherous ogre, but film biographer Higham ( Errol Flynn ) humanizes the M.G.M. titan in this revelatory, wonderfully vivid biography based on archival files and interviews with the Mayer
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