New Releases by C. David Heymann

Traces the passionate and sometimes volatile relationship between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, covering their sensational 1954 elopement and the troubles that led to their divorce nine months later.

Se afirma que la vida de Elizabeth Taylor fue más intensa que cualquiera de los papeles que interpretó en su dilatada carrera cinematográfica. La diva de ojos violeta fue un icono, y una de las personalidades más observadas, fotografiadas y seguidas de cerca de nuestro tiempo.Mediante más de un millar de entrevistas con actores, directores, productores, diseñadores, amigos, familia, socios de negocios y empleados, y a través también de una búsqueda exhaustiva en documentos legales, de negocios, médicos y de estudio, C. David Heymann revela sus escándalos más públicos, pero también sus momentos más íntimos. Desde su salud deficiente y sus frecuentes fracturas óseas, pasando por sus problemas alimentarios y sus repetidas batallas contra las drogas y el alcohol, hasta sus turbulentos affaires, ésta es la enormemente contradictoria e innegablemente glamurosa vida de la última gran estrella de Hollywood.

Elizabeth Taylor''s own story was more dramatic than any part she ever played on the screen. C. David Heymann brings her magnificently to life in this acclaimed biography--updated with a new chapter covering her final years. She was an icon, one of the most watched, photographed, and gossiped-about personalities of our time. Child star, daughter of a controlling stage mother, Oscar-winning actress, seductress and eight-time wife, mother of four children and grandmother of ten, champion of funding for AIDS research, purveyor of perfumes and jewelry, close friend of celebrities and tycoons—Elizabeth Taylor, for almost eight decades, played most completely, beautifully, cunningly, flamboyantly, and scandalously her greatest role of all: herself. The basis of an Emmy Award-nominated miniseries, Liz portrays Taylor’s life and career in fascinating, revealing detail and includes an additional new chapter, bringing her beloved fans up to date on her final years. By way of more than a thousand interviews with stars, directors, producers, designers, friends, family, business associates, and employees and through extensive research among previously disclosed court, business, medical, and studio documents, bestselling author Heymann reminds readers of her very public escapades and unveils her most private moments. Here are the highs and lows of her film career and the intimate circumstances of her marriages to Nicky Hilton, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, Senator John Warner, and Larry Fortensky. Here, too, is the truth about Taylor’s father and her friendships with leading men Montgomery Clift, James Dean, and Rock Hudson, as well as with the eccentric Malcolm Forbes and Michael Jackson. From her illnesses, injuries, weight issues, and battles against drug and alcohol, to her sexual exploits, diamond-studded adventures, and tumultuous love affairs, this is the enormously contradictory and glamorous life of Hollywood’s last great star.

The author of A Woman Named Jackie and The Georgetown Ladies'' Social Club draws on intimate sources to offer insight into the relationship between Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, sharing details about an affair that was an open secret for decades among family insiders.

A dual portrait of JFK, Jr. and Caroline Kennedy draws on personal interviews to discuss such topics as the assassination attempt on Jackie Kennedy while she was giving birth, Caroline''s reclusive lifestyle, and the unsettling results of John''s and his wife''s autopsies.

A portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown cites the influence of such women as Katharine Graham, Lorraine Cooper, and Sally Quinn, while offering insight into Washington life in the late twentieth century.

In this intimate portrait of the world''s most famous and elusive woman, we learn really went on in the Kennedy White House, aboard the Onassis yacht, in the raising of the two Kennedy children, and so much more. A Woman Named Jackie is a startling account of the complexities and contradictions of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy''s fascinating life and character.