Anything Your Little Heart Desires by Patricia Bosworth
A memorable and moving book about a man -- indeed, a family -- of Fritzgeraldian proportions -- a distinguished and gripping American saga. -- Todd Gitlin, Chicago TribuneThrough the prism of her father's life as a lawyer and well-known political activist, Patricia Bosworth sheds light on an important era in modern American history -- from the heady, hope-filled days of Roosevelt's New Deal to the dawn of the Cold War.
In the course of a remarkable career, Bartley Crum represented movie stars and labor leaders, advised presidents and presidential hopefuls, emerged as a key figure in the creation of Israel, and became a forceful voice for civil rights. But when his defense of the Hollywood Ten made him a target of the FBI's andcommunist hysteria, public pressures and personal demons brought his once-charmed life to a tragic end. Interweaving public and private vignettes, his daughter's memoir re-creates Crum's life and times with rare and moving honesty.
Consider this beautiful, saddening book on a par with Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.It is an extraordinary document.written with blood and tears. -- Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World
Extraordinary.as beautifully written as any memoir I have ever read. -- Charles Kaiser, The New York Observer
PATRICIA BOSWORTH is an award-winning journalist and bestselling biographer and memoirist who works as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a Front Page Award recipient. She was born in San Francisco and now lives in New York City. Patricia has taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University's School of Journalism and Barnard College, where she was a Senior Fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program. She was a member of the Actors Studio's board of directors for many years and was in charge of the Playwrights-Directors Unit. HarperCollins will publish her latest book, The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan, in paperback in January 2018.
Everything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Tale was her first memoir, and it was about her family and the Hollywood Blacklist. She has also written biographies of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Diane Arbus, the photographer. Fur, a 2006 film starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., was inspired by her Arbus biography.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684808093 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684808099 |
| Title | Anything Your Little Heart Desires |
| Author | Patricia Bosworth |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 1997-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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