Author: Nigel Blundell
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN: 9780706424966
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Nigel Blundell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scandals
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Terry Burrows
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1398803502
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Did an American president really sleep with film star Marilyn Monroe? What were the real facts of Watergate? How was the former FIFA president involved in bribery allegations? This book lifts the lid on scandals that have rocked the world. From the sexual peccadillos of America's Founding Fathers to the illegal data harvesting of Cambridge Analytica, The World's Worst Scandals examines shocking events from across history. Find out about the politicians, Hollywood celebrities, and corporate moguls who abused their power and didn't get away with it.

Author: Nigel Blundell
Publisher: Bounty Books
ISBN: 9780753706978
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at scandals through the 20th Century.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 052565643X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.” --Dwight Garner, The New York Times From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."

Author: Book Sales, Inc.
Publisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780785814801
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Royal scandals, Hollywood scandals, political scandals, and rock 'n' roll scandals.

Author: Vikas Khatri
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 812231239X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Author: Michael Farquhar
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140280241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.

Author: Mary Ellen Sterling
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1576901009
Category : Creative activities and seat work
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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A brief overview of the political, economic, social, cultural, scientific, and technological advances of the twentieth century and introduces students to the individuals who made history in each decade. Includes suggested activities.

Author: Patrick Pesnot
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473862191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthrall us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as close as possible into the world of espionage, though a panorama of intelligence history. Among the best known of these agents, the reader will find Aldrich Ames, an American accused of spying for the KGB; Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy best known for his espionage work in Syria and Klaus Fuchs, the German-born British agent who helped the USSR to manufacture its atomic bomb in 1949.