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Jennie: The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast--and Scandal--of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a...
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by Ralph Martin
Sales Rank: 613554
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Discount: 40 %
List Price: $17.95
$14.36
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on 5-30-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 768 pages
Published by: Sourcebooks TradeEdition: 1st Edition October 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 140220972X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1402209727
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 2.3 inches
Weighs: 2.2 pounds
Book Description
A master workJennie was released to a public that became entranced by her story, and will again be now that she is back in print in this awesome single volume.
-from the foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill
Sourcebooks is bringing the internationally acclaimed New York Times bestseller back for a new generation of readers.
Jennie Churchill was not merely Winstons mother. She was the most captivating and desired lady of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. gorgeous and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents.
Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Winston Churchill, writes that Jennie is, a master work that pulses with energy as the author leads us from her cradle to relatively early grave, at the age of sixty-seven, of a lady who finally emerges-under his guiding hand-from the shadow of being a great mans mother, to being a lady in her own right.
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Having spent thirty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Ralph Martins Jennie: The Life of lady Randolf Churchill is the story of a girl from Brooklyn who became the toast of British society.
Jennie, the most fascinating and desirable lady of her age, was once the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and raised a son-Winston Churchill-who saved England from the Nazi onslaught with the only weapons he possessed-his awesome oratory and his courage. Her paramours included King Edward VII of England and King Milan of Serbia. She later married two men, each twenty years her junior. A gorgeous rebel, she lived and loved with an honesty that made her the toast-and scandal-of two continents.
Physically gorgeous, volatile, brainy, outgoing, with enormous vitality . . . Jennie well into her middle age hypnotized men younger than her sons. Down the ages men and women of wealth and secure social station have always flouted society and Jennie was one of their number.
-New York Times
Not only Jennie, but the world in which she lived, dance before the reader in awesome display. . . . Written with such candor that one is spellbound . . . The best and most readable account possible of this fascinating woman
-Book World
The most vivid, the most detailed of biographies . . . a rich background of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras that saw Britain at the high noon of empire . . . a heroine of charm, brilliance and beauty.
-New York Post
Always absorbing . . . bright snatches of political gossip, social history and boudoir skullduggery.
-Newsweek
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