relations with women

"In November 2000 DeRogatis, a Chicago journalist and music critic, received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with 'young girls.' DeRogatis thought breaking the story would have an impact. Instead, Kelly's career flourished. After eighteen years of . . . journalism, he tells the story of Kelly's career, his own investigations, and brings the story up to the moment when things finally seem to have changed"--OCLC.

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin--the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era--but not about his love life. Poor Richard's Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for forty-four years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah's life and those of Ben's other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben's life in London; Catherine Ray, the twenty-three-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees. What emerges from Stuart's pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard's Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben's heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era.

Photographs and text trace the relationship of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton.

A fictional account of the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright as seen through the experiences of the four women who loved him.

Readers will learn about the nature of Jefferson's connection to someone who was legally his property, and about his descendants, both black and white.

Examines the many women who infuenced and helped famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass throughout his life and career.

A dramatization of the sad and haunting Mexican legend, the Crying Woman, about the Spanish conquistador Hern?n Cort?s and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator.

Eddie Huang, Chinese-American chef and author, follows his journey from Williamsburg to Mongolia, Shanghai and Chengdu, as he reconnects with his Chinese culture.

What if you were born into slavery in 1805? And what if the man who owned you...was also your father? And what if he were one of the most important men in America? And what if he wanted the fact that you were his son kept a secret? Such was the world of James Madison Hemings. This is his story.