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The grand inquisitor of The Weakest Link bares all in this humor-laced memoir.
The first woman in nearly half a century to host a prime-time game show and the highest-paid female journalist in British history, Anne Robinson warranted fan mail, death threats, unqualified admiration, and unabashed hatred. From pioneering journalist to overnight phenomenon, Robinson shares the events of her formative upbringing by a sensitive father and a driven, hardworking...
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One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726—97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, a defender of civil and political liberties, and a hero to American colonists. Wilkes's political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London, and the Massacre of St. George's Fields, in which seven of his supporters were shot to death by government troops. He was equally famous...
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A British journalist's "fast and funny" account of hedonism and conspicuous consumption in Los Angeles-and his attempt to get in on the fun (The New York Times).
From the author of War Reporting for Cowards, Death by Leisure is the incisive, irreverent, and savagely funny story of British journalist Chris Ayres's attempt to infiltrate the American leisure class (and find true love) in the credit-fueled years before the 2008 economic collapse. When...
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"Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition...
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