Archive for the 'Biographies & Memoirs' Category
Marjorie Hart’s Summer at Tiffany on Weekend Edition Sunday
Part coming-of-age story, part snapshot of an era, Marjorie Hart’s new memoir, Summer at Tiffany, details a season spent on the Tiffany sales floor—the best summer of her life. In 1945, Hart and a friend left the University of Iowa for New York City and, through sheer luck, land jobs as the first female pages at Tiffany Co., thus setting the stage for a summer brushing shoulders with Judy Garland and Marlene Deitrich, cavorting with midshipmen and experiencing New York in the final throes of WWII.
As Hart mentions in an interview with NPR’s Liane Hansen, one of her most vivid memories—and one of the most moving scenes in the memoir—is the simultaneous shock of learning the bomb had been dropped combined with the immense celebration that took place in Times Square on VJ day, 3 days later. Surely an interesting read for fans of coming-of-age literature and their partners in crime, WWII enthusiasts.
Biographer Carl Bernstein Profiles Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Carl Bernstein—one half of the duo that broke Watergate—profiles perhaps the most controversial figure in the upcoming election, Hillary Clinton. As Matt Lauer points out, whether you love her or hate her, everyone has an opinion on America’s first female presidential candidate, and Bernstein addresses that in the interview.
His book, A Woman In Charge, does its best to sift through all of the hype and slander surrounding Clinton, and to offer up an honest portrayal of her life to this point.
Today has made both the first chapter of the book and video of the interview during which Bernstein discusses the difficulties of profiling such a contentious figure.
You may experience both here.
Author Alan Deutschman Analizes Gates, Jobs Geek-on-Geek Action
Last week Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates went head to head on the same stage for the first time in more than 20 years and while most of the tech world was hoping for a total Jerry Springer-style brawl between the two, it just didn’t happen. Instead we got a big “you’re-great-no-you’re-great” love fest.
Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs and more recently Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, got a call from The Motley Fool’s Mac Greer to talk about the tussle that never was.
