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Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress in 1968 after campaigning under the slogan, ‘Unbought and Unbossed,’ and her political career never swerved from that principle – she was fearless, undaunted, brilliant, and always first a foremost a servant to nobody but the people.
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In this collection of in-depth interviews – including her last, as well as one of her first – Ruth Bader Ginsburg details her rise from a Brooklyn public school to becoming the second woman on the United States Supreme Court, and her non-stop fight for gender equality along the way. Besides telling the story behind many of her famous court battles, she talks openly about motherhood and her beloved husband, her Jewishness, her surprising friendship with her legal polar opposite Justice Antonin Scalia, her passion for opera, and, her advice to high school students wondering about the law.
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Nearly sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an icon whom everyone loves but no one really knows. The conversations gathered here, spanning her emergence on the Hollywood scene to just days before her death at age 36, show Monroe at her sharpest and most insightful on the thorny topics of ambition, fame, femininity, desire, and more. These pieces reveal not the tragic heroine she’s become in the popular imagination, but a justifiably angry figure breaking free of the limitations the world forced on her.
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In 1862, ambitious scientist James Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than ever before. A pioneer of weather forecasting and of photography, he wanted to take ground-breaking research measurements from different altitudes. Before aeroplanes, the only unpredictable available method of air transportation was the hot air balloon. This is his memoir, detailing death-defying air ballon journeys in his own words.
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The first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but ground breaking singer.
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A delightful collection of interviews with the beloved Julia Child”The French Chef,’ author, and television personality who revolutionized home cooking in 20th century America.
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Kathy Acker was a punk-rock counter-cultural icon, and innovator of the literary underground. The interviews collected here span her amazing, uncompromising, and often misunderstood 30-year career.
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Meet Christopher Hitchens – one of this generation’s greatest, and most divisive, thinkers.
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An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers. Oliver Sacks – called ‘the poet laureate of medicine’ by the New York Times – illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed books and numerous articles for ‘The New Yorker’. Here, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work.
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The massive, worldwide outpouring of grief at the death of David Bowie notably focused on not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same – the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself. In this remarkable collection, Bowie reveals the fierce intellectualism, artistry and humour behind it all. From his very first interview – as a teenager on the BBC, before he was even a musician – to his last, Bowie takes on the most probing questions, candidly discussing his sexuality, his drug usage, his sense of fashion, how he composed, and more.
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Long before Ridley Scott transformed ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ (1968) into ‘Blade Runner’ (1982), Philip K. Dick was banging away at his typewriter in relative obscurity, ostracised by the literary establishment. Today he is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. These interviews reveal a man plagued by bouts of manic paranoia and failed suicide attempts; a career fuelled by alcohol, amphetamines and mystical inspiration – and, above all, a magnificent and generous imagination at work.
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Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez was one of the most widely translated writers of his time, and yet there were many sides of him that English language readers do not know. This volume includes the first ever English translation of Márquez’s final conversation, along with other rare and never-before-translated interviews from throughout his long career. Márquez discusses his varied literary work and his controversial politics, and what emerges is a richer, deeper, more intimate portrait of this great writer than we’ve encountered before.