Leamer, Laurence

"Describes the brutal killing of a young black man in Alabama, and subsequent conviction of two Klansmen in 1981 and the civil suit against the United Klans of America that exposed the true motives and philosophy of the organization and ultimately bankrupted them"--OCLC.

A portrait of the women of the Kennedy family. Includes a family tree for ten generations of Kennedys. Starts with the first Kennedy woman, Bridget Murphy, who married Patrick Kennedy in 1849. Includes stories about Kathleen, the prewar England debutante; Rosemary, the mildly retarded daughter of Joe Kennedy; Joan, who had a tumultuous relationship with husband Ted; Jackie, wife of president John F. Kennedy who once contemplated divorce; and Carline Kennedy, who found her cousin dead from an overdose.

Presents profiles of five important Kennedy men in a political dynasty, and focuses on their youth, education, political careers, marriages, the presidency, and more.

The author presents the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his rise to fame and power, and his marriage to Maria Shriver. The life of Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most extraordinary success stories of our time. An immigrant with a heavy accent from a village in Austria, he became the greatest bodybuilder in history, the number one movie star in the world, the Republican husband of a Kennedy princess, and the governor of the greatest of American states. Fantastic shows how and why this man of willful ambition and limitless drive achieved his unprecedented accomplishments.

Chronicles the life of actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, discussing his childhood in Austria, years as a bodybuilder, movie career, marriage, term as governor, and White House aspirations.