Tonya Flynt-Vega, Author, Tonya Flynt Vega, Author, Ted Schwarz, Author Westminster John Knox Press $14.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-664-22114-0
Continuing her very public campaign against her father, Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler and other pornographic magazines, Flynt-Vega puts into print what she has been saying for years: that her father's pornography empire ""may be the greatest
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Ted Schwarz, Author Taylor Trade Publishing $26.95 (675p) ISBN 978-1-58979-342-2
Penning a Marilyn Monroe biography in 2009 is no easy task, following shelves full of books shamelessly exposing, mythologizing and complicating the iconic actress's memory. Schwarz (The Hillside Strangler) presents the first comprehensive biography
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Ted Schwarz, Author, Tom Rybak, With St. Martin's Press $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-14583-5
Despite the removal in 1995 of Bernard Lafferty-Doris Duke's hard-drinking, barely literate butler-as coexecutor of Duke's will, the disposition of the estate of the heiress to the American Tobacco Company fortune is still hotly contested. Here,...
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Patricia Seaton Lawford, Author, Ted Schwarz, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $17.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-88184-434-4
The last wife of screen star Lawford and coauthor Schwartz, a freelance writer, recreate in often tawdry detail the actor's life and recall his three previous wives, including Patricia Kennedy. Basing their narrative on the performer's diaries and...
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Ted Schwarz, Author . Wiley $30 (472p) ISBN 978-0-471-17681-7
Publicity for this bio says that Schwarz (The Peter Lawford Story; Rose Kennedy and Her Family) "reveals for the first time the true story of this larger-than-life patriarch." One wonders how this can be the case, as Schwarz appears to base...
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Michael D. Brown and Ted Schwarz. Taylor Trade, $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-58979-485-6
The inside scoop on Katrina from former undersecretary of Homeland Security, famously called "Brownie" by George W. Bush, is no mea culpa, but rather a blast of blame aimed at numerous parties. Deadly indifference is indeed evident in the...
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