Nicholas Wapshott, Author . Penguin/Sentinel $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59523-047-8
White House press secretary James Brady once declared “[i]t took a crowbar” to separate President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher. Biographer Wapshott (Thatcher
) assesses the nature of that sometimes testy but always close freindship.
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Nicholas Wapshott, Author Viking Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-83947-6
British biographer Wapshott ( Peter O'Toole ) offers a readable popular life history of the film and stage actor noted for his sophisticated and charming persona. Best remembered in the U.S. for his portrayal of Prof. Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady ,
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Nicholas Wapshott, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (365p) ISBN 978-0-679-40288-6
Reed (1906-1976), one of the English cinema's best craftsmen (he directed The Third Man and won an Oscar for the musical Oliver! ), was also one of its more taciturn figures, a quality that hampers Wapshott, the editor of the London Times Magazine ,
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Nicholas Wapshott. Norton, $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-07748-3
In his latest, Wapshott (Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage) masterfully recounts the strange clash between economists Freidrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes, including their different approaches to life and work, and their...
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Nicholas Wapshott. Norton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-393-08888-5
Wapshott (Keynes/Hayek), the international editor at Newsweek, brings a British perspective to this narrative of F.D.R.’s successful outmaneuvering of the American isolationist movement in the run-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, against the...
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Nicholas Wapshott. Norton, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-28518-5
Journalist Wapshott (Keynes Hayek) returns with another lucid and character-driven account of the rivalry between two leading economists. From 1966 to 1981, MIT professor Paul Samuelson, author of a popular Keynesian economics textbook, and Milton...
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