Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald S. Strober, With Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $35 (640p) ISBN 978-0-395-77193-8
Following the format of their oral histories of the Kennedy and Nixon presidencies, the authors of this sympathetic, composite portrait of Ronald Reagan have spliced together interviews with 108 administration insiders, friends and political...
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Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald S. Strober, Author . Broadway $30 (592p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0638-8
Most accounts of the British royals fall into one of two extremes: hostile exposés that "tell all" and fawning hagiographies that tell nothing. Falling neatly between these literary absolutes, this multifaceted "oral biography"...
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Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald S. Strober, Author . Jossey-Bass $21.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-7879-8401-4
In June of 2005 Billy Graham preached his final "crusade" in New York. Nine months later, the once-indefatigable evangelist, 87 years old and slowed by Parkinson's disease, admitted that a sermon preached in New Orleans might possibly be
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Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald S. Strober, Author Wiley $30 (286p) ISBN 978-0-470-05314-0
There are many ways to tell Israel’s story, and most will raise the ire of someone. Here the Strobers (Giuliani: Flawed and Flawless
) aim to corral these conflicting viewpoints to tell the nation’s history; to a very limited extent,...
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Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald S. Strober, Author John Wiley & Sons $26.95 (282p) ISBN 978-0-471-68001-7
The Strobers, who have written oral biographies of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, use the same techniques here for an oral biography of Tibet's famous spiritual leader. They begin by offering brief profiles of the 54 interviewees,
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Deborah Hart Strober, Author, Gerald Strober, Author Phoenix Books $14.95 (294p) ISBN 978-1-59777-640-0
With his arrest on Dec. 11, 2008, the world first learned that Wall Street trader and former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff was allegedly running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a $50 billion scam constructed over decades. Husband and wife...
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Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober. Pegasus, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-63936-191-5
Husband and wife biographers Gerald and Deborah Strober paint a mostly flattering portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in this updated and expanded version of The Monarchy (2002). Weaving together interviews with royal family insiders including Lady...
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