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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Gerald S. Strober, Author, Deborah Hart Strober, With HarperCollins Publishers $25 (540p) ISBN 978-0-06-016720-2
Based on more than 120 interviews conducted from 1989 to 1992, this ``oral history'' is a sometimes enlightening, more often frustrating attempt to recount, not analyze, Kennedy's presidency. Gerald S. Storber ( American Jews: Community in Crisis )...
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Gerald S. Strober, Author, Deborah Hart Strober, With HarperCollins Publishers $27.5 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-017027-1
In this kaleidoscopic oral history, one of the 90 interviewees, Howard Phillips, chair of the Conservative Caucus, observes that Nixon's love-hate relationship with his father, mostly hate, and his exaggerated exaltation of his mother are keys to...
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