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READ THE BOOK THEN SEE THE HBO MOVIE WITH CLIVE OWEN AND NICOLE
KIDMAN HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN tells the story of Hemingway's
tumultuous marriage to his third wife set against the backdrop of
the Great Depression in Key West, the first revolution in Cuba, the
Spanish civil war, World War II, and the war in China. It is as
much about their activities as intelligence agents and the great
political and economic events of the period as it is about the two
protagonists. Previous books have portrayed the protagonists in
their roles as major literary figures. No other books on Hemingway
and Gellhorn have dramatized them as political activists within the
context of their era. HEMINGWAY AND GELLHORN depicts them as their
lives evolved during the major political, military, and economic
events of the time-the Great Depression, revolution, war in China
and in Europe. Both writers were extremely political and committed
in different ways to their political ideals. They were also highly
promiscuous. This is the first book to show them in that light.
This is the first book that goes into detail about Hemingway's role
as a spy for the U.S. government. This is the first book that
discusses how Martha's political passions played such an important
role in the breakup of their marriage. This is the first book that
talks about Hemingway's need to always have another woman in his
life and his many extramarital affairs. This is the first book that
examines Gellhorn's affairs before and during their marriage and
her true motivation for seducing Hemingway.
The march of the Bonus Army on Washington in 1932 had its roots in
the unpaid bonus promised to the vets of World War I, who had
risked their lives on the battlefields of Europe. In 1924, six long
years after the Armistice was signed and the vets returned home,
the U.S. Congress passed a law granting them "adjusted universal
compensation"--a bonus for their service to the country. There was
a catch to the bill, however; the money was not immediately
payable, and the vets were issued IOUs not redeemable until 1945,
by which time many of the vets could be expected to have passed on
to their eternal rewards. Over the next five years, vets struggled
to find their footing and asked the government to release their
bonus early, but to no avail. Best-selling author Jerome Tuccille
brings these vets' story to life in The War Against the Vets. The
vets descended on the nation's capital in ever-growing numbers to
demand immediate payment of their bonuses. When the vets' voices
and cries for justice grew louder in 1932, President Herbert Hoover
unleashed the power of the U.S. military under General MacArthur on
the vet encampments with tanks, tear gas, and rifles with fixed
bayonets, resulting in the murder of several demonstrators. As the
Great Depression took hold and jobs across America vanished, newly
appointed president Franklin Roosevelt shipped the vets down to
work camps in the Florida Keys, where hundreds were killed in a
brutal hurricane. The long, drawn-out struggle continued until
1936, when the U.S. Congress overrode FDR's veto of the latest
bonus bill, finally granting the vets the bonus they had been
promised after the war. The War Against the Vets is the first book
about the Bonus Army to describe in detail the political battles
that threatened to tear the country apart, as well as the
scandalous treatment of the World War I vets, who have largely been
forgotten and reduced to a footnote in history. With the 100th
anniversary of the end of World War I drawing near, Tuccille brings
the episode to the forefront of American consciousness where it
belongs.
Call it fact. Call it fiction. Call it faction, if you like. The
story told in these pages is fiction based on fact. A while back,
an elderly Scotsman named Philip Jacobs approached the author with
this story. Philip lived in Glasgow when Rudolf Hess, Deputy
Fuehrer of the Third Reich, crash-landed his plane in a field
outside the city. Philip was a young reporter at the time and he
swore that the story you are about to read is true in all its
essentials. Tuccille has presented Philip's story as a novel, but
the only liberties taken are in dialogue that has been invented by
the author. This book is dedicated to the memory of Philip Jacobs,
who lived through the events portrayed in these pages. The solo
flight of deputy fuehrer Rudolph Hess into Scotland in May, 1941,
was one of the more bizarre events of WW II. Was Hess acting on his
own or at Hitler's behest? Tuccille (Hemingway and Gellhorn and
other books) speculates that Hess has been deputized by the
fuehrer, sent on a mission to convince England to cease hostilities
in Europe so that Germany can concentrate its forces against the
mutually despised Stalinist Russia. The proposal is presented to
Winston Churchill, who, of course, has an agenda of his own. The
plot draws in Scottish journalist Philip Jacobs (the author's
source for the saga), who suspects the British government is
concealing a great deal in the Hess affair and who comes perilously
close to uncovering the full story. The book is a riveting
page-turner, recommended for all audiences.
THIS IS THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ABOUT JESUS CHRIST-WHO HE WAS, WHERE HE
CAME FROM, WHAT HE HOPED TO ACCOMPLISH, HIS PLACE IN THE GRAND
PANTHEON OF SPIRITUAL LEADERS. AFTER THE MURDER OF JESUS CHRIST
tells the story of what really happened after the crucifixion.
Among the controversial points made in this book are: Jesus
believed in reincarnation, but this view was played down by the
early apostles who wanted to keep the message simple to convert as
many people to Christianity as possible. Jesus never claimed to be
the Messiah, but rather the son of the Father in the same sense we
all are. He had achieved a level of spiritual perfection and his
main mission was to bring the truth about existence to everyone to
bring them closer to the Creator. Anti-Semitic passages were
deliberately introduced into the New Testament by early church
translators to deflect the blame for the crucifixion from the Roman
authorities to the Jews. The reality was that Jesus was causing
disturbances in Judea, posing problems for Rome. The 20th century
"sleeping prophet" and psychic healer, Edgar Cayce, revealed
through his own readings that Jesus came from a long line of
mystery religions, including the cabala, that predated Jung's
secular views of the conscious mind, the personal subconscious, and
the universal unconscious--in other words, the spirit world in
religious terms. Jesus could not have been born of a virgin since
he came from the line of David, which passed through his father
Joseph, not Mary. He also had several brothers and sisters, a fact
played down by the early church.. Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene
first in spirit form, non-corporeal, since she was the woman he
loved more than any other and was the first among his disciples.
His appearances to the other disciples also took the form of a
spirit-body, which they did not recognize at first, not the
flesh-and-blood man they had known in life.
After returning from a vacation in California with his wife and
family, the author is reluctantly drawn into a crime involving the
theft of priceless paintings from a Manhattan art gallery,
perpetrated by members of his family, and escapes at the end only
by the grace of a benevolent deity. In June 2007, one of the
paintings, Monet's "Nympheas," sold at auction in London for $36
million. Tuccille tries to find redemption in a quixotic political
campaign when he runs for Governor of New York, only to have his
life unravel before his eyes in a way he could not have foreseen.
The failure of his campaign and the arrest of members of his family
for their involvement in the crime lead to near financial ruin. In
the end, he gets back on his feet and finds his way back onto a
path toward personal and spiritual redemption.
When petty gambler Salvatore makes a play for Joe Marano's
daughter, the mob-connected patriarch changes his will on his
deathbed, depriving Salvatore and his only daughter of easy access
to his fortune. This spellbinding tales is filled with greed,
infidelity, betrayal, and redemption. A not-to-be missed reading
adventure.
Tuccille offers a partly satirical, partly serious homage to the
men and women whom many regard as perhaps the greatest literary
generation in modern times--Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Faulkner,
and other early-20th century authors.
In It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, Jerome Tuccille takes the
reader on a "hilarious romp through the wild and kooky reaches of
the libertarian right," according to Publisher's Weekly. Along the
way he explodes many myths surrounding leading right-wing heroes,
including Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley, Jr.,
Ronald Reagan, and many others. He doesn't spare himself from the
satirist's pen either, describing in detail his comic run for
Governor of New York in 1974-an adventure that ended in near
bankruptcy and personal turmoil. " Tuccille] is damned funny. His
book is a quick read; its pages turn quickly. This is pop history,
not deep theory, so most of the pauses in the reading are caused by
sudden bouts of laughter. What are we to make of a book that, when
discussing Rand's comments about pollution, adds, 'Ayn, you sweet,
lovable, crazy bitch'? David Friedman wrote in his foreword to the
25th anniversary edition of this book: 'If you are looking for a
careful scholarly history of the libertarian movement... you had
better look somewhere else. But for a vivid and entertaining
picture of the early years of libertarianism, Tuccille's book has
no equal.'" --The Colorado Freedom Report--www.freecolorado.com
"Jerome Tuccille's classic history of contemporary libertarian
politics is as informative as it is entertaining. Tuccille takes
the reader along as he tells of his political conversion from
Objectivist to Miscellaneous to Anarchist. He blends an element of
mockery of the fringe in the political sphere with a genuine care
for the people and events. I recommend it to anyone who is already
familiar with the Libertarian world but needs a little education on
the genesis of it." --freemarket.net "Tuccille has got to be
everyone's favorite right wing individualist anarchist." --Library
Journal
In the tradition of Ken Follett and Nelson DeMille, The Double:
Churchill, Hitler, and the Duel over Rudolf Hess Jerome Tuccille,
whose best-selling biographies of Donald Trump, Alan Greenspan, the
Gallo wine clan, and others have earned him wide acclaim, turns his
talents here to a World War II espionage thriller concerning one of
the most controversial episodes of the war-the crash landing of
Rudolf Hess in Scotland. It reads like fiction. But did it really
happen? The solo flight of deputy fuehrer Rudolph Hess into
Scotland in May, 1941, was one of the more bizarre events of WW II.
Was Hess acting on his own or at Hitler's behest? Tuccille
(Hemingway and Gellhorn and other books) speculates that Hess has
been deputized by the fuehrer, sent on a mission to convince
England to cease hostilities in Europe so that Germany can
concentrate its forces against the mutually despised Stalinist
Russia. The proposal is presented to Winston Churchill, who, of
course, has an agenda of his own. The plot draws in Scottish
journalist Philip Jacobs (the author's source for the saga), who
suspects the British government is concealing a great deal in the
Hess affair and who comes perilously close to uncovering the full
story. The book is a riveting page-turner, recommended for all
audiences. Publishers Weekly
The events recounted in this book are essentially true. The theft
of the paintings in question took place as told; they were hidden
in my father's cellar in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx for
about two years until my wife and I removed them. My cousin and his
partner were arrested for their roles in the crime. I have taken
some minor fictional liberties in the reconstruction of dialogue
that occurred more than thirty years ago and in the invention of a
few details that most likely happened during breaks in the main
action of the story, which is why this book can be read as either a
memoir or a novel. In June 2007, one of the paintings, Monet's
"Nympheas," sold at auction in London for $36 million.
Rival revolutionaries, a deadly monster, a friendly vampire, and
tough choices Ever since that odd night at The Pentangle Pub six
years ago left-wing revolutionary Alex Mallum has had strange
dreams and unexplained blackouts. Shortly thereafter the mysterious
Luke Fenris appeared and in just a few short years has become the
idol of Wall Street right-wingers and talked about as an American
savior. Each has secret revolutionary plans to change the face of
American politics and their radical paths are on a collision
course. But unbeknownst to each, the two share a mysterious link to
a deadly monster. Only Ludwig von Dracula, self-proclaimed
descendant of the infamous count and head of the Vampire Liberation
Front, knows the secret of the homicidal beast that binds these two
rivals together but he's not sure he should intervene. Not his
problem. But if Alex Mallum doesn't die before the completion of
the upcoming eclipse of the Harvest moon the world may never be the
same. Unless . . . "I had to know how the book would end." --
Barbara Branden, author of The Passion of Ayn Rand "A political
satire expressed in the form of a horror story . . . Some of their
ideas really are clever. Their secretive master villain's ultimate
secret really is ingeniously chosen." --Prometheus, Newsletter of
the Libertarian Futurist Society
In King of Media bestselling author Jerome Tuccille tells for the
first time the extraordinary story of the visionary yet tenacious
man who revolutionized the entertainment industry. After starting
out in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency in the 1960s,
Diller joined ABC Television where his swift rise through the ranks
earned him almost immediate recognition and chairmanship of
Paramount Pictures. There he oversaw such film classics as Saturday
Night Fever, Grease, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as the TV
shows Laverne & Shirley and Taxi. However, Diller made his most
indelible mark on the industry when in 1987 he formed FOX TV, which
went head to head with the existing networks by programming
innovative series such as The Simpsons, Married...With Children,
and In Living Color. Since then Diller has continued to grab
headlines, most notably with his acquisition of QVC, his volatile
and failed battle to buy Paramount Pictures, and later his marriage
to fashion designer Diane von Furstenburg. Among the dozens of
celebrities and media tycoons we meet along the way are Calvin
Klein, Andy Warhol, John Travolta, Warren Beatty, David Geffen,
Rupert Murdoch, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Ted Turner, Robert
Evans, and Joan Rivers.
KING OF MEDIA is the remarkable story of a man who for the past
forty years has had a hand in reshaping the worldwide entertainment
and media industry. Barry Diller has recently emerged as the major
figure in the media industry after living for the past two decades
in the shadows of larger-than-life titans such as Ted Turner,
Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, and Warren Buffett. Today, however,
with all those who have stood in Diller's path over the years
self-destructing in various ways, Diller remains standing at the
pinnacle of a media empire more solid and powerful than any of his
predecessors. In 2007 he was cited as the most highly compensated
executive in the United States. Unlike those who came before him,
Diller has refused to take on mountains of debt to finance his
acquisitions. He has always been as conservative in his financial
affairs as he has been liberal in his personal and political life.
His balance sheet is clean, and he is well positioned to grow and
build his empire as his major competitors struggle for survival.
First published in 2009, this book has already received several
awards. Tuccille reveals how the Gallos, a secretive family with
political and organized crime connections, rose from near poverty
after Prohibition to conquer the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine
market.
In his biography of media baron Murdoch, Tuccille (vice president,
T. Rowe Price Investment Services) concentrates on Murdoch's
business activities, chronicling how he built a newspaper and
broadcast empire and a vast fortune for himself. The biography
covers his entire life, but concentrates on the
Donald J. Trump's remarkable energy and vision have changed the
face of our world. Here is his story, the story of the Queens-born
grandson of a Swedish immigrant who bought his first properties
while still in college and moved on to become among the nation's
biggest "movers and shakers" before the age of forty. 12 pages of
photos. Fine.
H.L. Hunt (1889-1974), considered at one time to be the world's
richest man, amassed his fortune through fair means and foul,
according to Tuccile (vice president, T. Rowe Price Investment
Services), who profiles him and his family in this
business-oriented biography. Although Hunt's far right win
This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with
Wall Street Mergers and how to minimize your risks in the takeover
game.
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