Vincent Curcio, Author William Morrow & Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06718-2
Written with deep sympathy, stage producer Curcio's biography evokes Grahame as a beautiful woman and talented actress doomed by her outre behavior. Although she distinguished herself professionally in such films as It's a Wonderful Life and The Bad
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Vincent Curcio, Author Oxford University Press $35 (699p) ISBN 978-0-19-507896-1
From humble beginnings as a Kansas railroad-shop apprentice wiping down locomotives for 5U cents an hour, Walter Chrysler (1875-1940) rose to become a railroad master mechanic and foreman, then a leading auto manufacturer and industrial mogul....
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Vincent Curcio. Oxford Univ., $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-19-531692-6
This succinct biography is a rounded exploration of an extraordinary life, culled from an extensive and varied bibliography. The core is Ford’s mysterious, contradictory personality—he was a generous, paternal boss who later opposed unionization; an
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