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LIFE The Day Kennedy Died: Fifty Years Later: LIFE Remembers the Man and the Moment
by The Editors of LifeFifty years ago on November 22, 1963, in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline. LIFE magazine, the weekly pictorial chronicle of events in America and throughout the world, was quickly on the scene. The Kennedys had been LIFE's story: Jack and Jackie made the cover in his sailboat before they were married and he was a fresh-faced senator from Massachusetts, and the White House doors had remained open to LIFE throughout his presidency: Cecil Stoughton's photographs of Caroline and John-John in the Oval Office, Jackie's tour of the renovation, tense behind-the-scenes moments during 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis--all of this appeared in LIFE. The famous Zapruder film, included here unedited, first appeared in LIFE, after being acquired by LIFE's Richard B. Stolley. Stolley also interviewed at the time Dallas police, Kennedy administration officials, members of the Oswald family, workers at Jack Ruby's bar. Jackie's first conversation after the murder was with Theodore H. White for LIFE, and in it she told the American people, for the first time, about the Camelot her late husband had imagined. All of that is revisited in LIFE The Day Kennedy Died, including: An official release of the unedited Zapruder film An essay by Richard B. Stolley on how he exclusively obtained the iconic film for LIFE An essay by Abraham Zapruder's granddaughter, Alexandra, who writes for the first time about how the film affected her family over the generations Personal stories about where they were when they heard the news from Barbra Streisand, Maya Angelou, Jimmy Carter, Tony Bennett, Willie Mays, Sergei Khrushchev, James Earl Jones, John Boehner, Tom Brokaw, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alec Baldwin, Bill O'Reilly, Dan Rather and many more Rarely seen photos from the TIME/LIFE archive of Allan Grant's photo essay of the Oswald family on the night of the assassination A foreword featuring a conversation with historian David McCullough LIFE's Theodore H. White's famous "Camelot" interview with Jackie (which she gave shortly after the assassination), as well as the story behind the interview and the words that never ran A new essay on 50 years of conspiracy theories by J.I. Baker, author of The Empty Glass
LIFE The Day Kennedy Died: Fifty Years Later: Life Remembers The Man And The Moment
by The Editors of LIFELIFE Magazine presents The Day Kennedy Died.
LIFE The Enduring Legacy of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird (LIFE Special Issue Magazine)
by The Editors of LIFELIFE celebrates Harper Lee, author of one of the most beloved works of American fiction.When HarperCollins published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, it quickly became a runaway bestseller-and its author, Harper Lee, an overnight literary celebrity. In this special edition, LIFE delves into its famous archives to present a rich, beautifully illustrated commemoration of Lee's life and legacy. Through essays, photographs and archival materials, LIFE revisits To Kill a Mockingbird and helps us understand its magic, exploring how the coming-of-age story of a tomboy in a small Southern town became an enduring touchstone of our cultural consciousness.This collectable volume features photographs from LIFE's 1961 profile of Lee, taken in her hometown of Monroeville, Ala., where she lived until her death in 2016. These indelible images-some reproduced here for the first time-reveal an intimate portrait of the famously shy author, showing her with her father at their childhood home and in the local courtroom that inspired the setting for the trial in Mockingbird.The book also goes behind the scenes of the Oscar Award-winning film adaptation that starred Gregory Peck in his legendary role as Atticus Finch. Mockingbird's transformation from an explosively popular novel into a classic Hollywood film is captured here in LIFE's photographs from the set, film stills, and anecdotes from those close to the project.Lee's story would not be complete without an exploration of the long-awaited sequel, Go Set a Watchman. TIME's arts critic Daniel D'Addario reviews the novel-published from a manuscript long thought to be lost-that set the literary world aflame in 2015.Throughout, LIFE's special edition incorporates reproductions of unique ephemera, including Peck's original film script with his handwritten annotations.
LIFE The New Royals
by The Editors of LifeThe aura around the royal family is vastly different than it was in years and decades past. Now, 20 years after the death of the transformative Princess Diana, today's generation of royals are active and engaged, using the power of their position to advance causes for the good of the community. Prince William and Prince Harry, inspired by the example set by their mother, have embraced charities and causes that include mental health and aid wounded veterans. Kate Middleton and her children, little Prince George and Princess Charlotte, are out and about, visible in ways that royals never were before. This is the world that Kate and William's newest child-she is due in early 2018-will enter. The new royals are still glamorous, and now they are more inspiring than ever. LIFE The New Royals highlights the young generations of Windsors with glowing photographs of them, as well as archival photographs of Charles, Diana, the Queen and more, along with rich and thoughtful reporting on one of the world's best-known families. This special edition also includes a family tree of the Windsors and a section on the new generations of royals throughout the world. Packed with dozens of unforgettable images, including the wedding of William and Kate and the latest adorable antics of their children, this is a memorable keepsake for royal watchers everywhere.
LIFE The Rat Pack: The Original Bad Boys
by The Editors of LifeThey weren't the original bad boys of stage and screen, but they were the most famous: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford and so many hangers-on and wannabes, male and female. Revisit the '60s in this reissue of a classic LIFE special edition-the Rat Pack is in town. Among the highlights:A new introduction, commemorating what would have been Dean Martin's 100th birthdayInside the friendship between Sinatra and John F. Kennedy Jr.The birth of Vegas and how Sin City became the sensation it is todayRare and intimate photos from the great LIFE magazine photographer John Dominis
LIFE Unseen: An Illustrated Biography With Rare and Never-Before-Seen Photographs from the Archives of Sony Music Entertainment
by Editors of LifeLIFE partners with Sony Music Entertainment and its vast archive of photography to launch a new series of special books: LIFE Unseen, surprising looks at some of our most legendary stars. We kick off the series with Johnny Cash, who passed away 10 years ago, but it seems like he has never left us. There have been iconic American performers whose lives seemed even larger than their stage personas. Then there was Johnny Cash, unique and-yes-transcendent. He is seen as a country singer, but he is also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Gospel Hall of Fame. Coming out of Arkansas, rebellious and an early adherent of rockabilly (he was part of Sun Studios' Million Dollar Quartet, along with Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis), he found his audience. Cash was also a TV star and he formed supergroups with other top recording artists. Movies were made about the Man in Black, and he would have been calcified as a "legend" had he not been so genuine. LIFE was at its apex when Cash "arrived," and this special volume includes that great photography, interviews with Cash and his family-as well as his soul mate, June Carter Cash, in a special section-and, of course, the never-before-seen imagery. Johnny Cash lives on through his eternal music and personal story-and through this tribute that presents, perhaps even reveals, the Man in Black, Johnny Cash, as you've never seen him.
LIFE Walt Disney: From Mickey to the Magic Kingdom
by The Editors of LIFEDisney World is often referred to as the "happiest place on earth" and the character Mickey Mouse is long ingrained in our collective memory. The Walt Disney Company is one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world. But behind all of that was one ambitious small-town farm boy who failed as often as he succeeded, and finally found worldwide fame - thanks to a cartoon mouse.Throughout the rise of Walt Disney, LIFE magazine was there, covering everything from the first Mickey merchandising to the launch of Walt Disney World in 1971, and now in this all-new special edition, LIFE revisits both the man and the magic in LIFE Walt Disney: From Mickey to the Magic Kingdom. Very few people know that as a young entrepreneur, he struggled with bankruptcy, borrowing money until he had a hit with the Mickey Mouse cartoons in the late 1920s. Beloved movies of today - Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi - bombed when first released, and it wasn't until the astronomical success of Disneyland in 1951 that finally put his company into the black.From early days to troubled times, and successes and failures too numerous to count that bring us all to the World of Disney that we all know and love today, LIFE Walt Disney is a fitting tribute to a creative force that has and will continue to influence countless generations for years to come.
LL Cool J (Superstars of Hip-Hop)
by Z. B. HillSince 1985, LL Cool J has been a major part of hip-hop. In the 1980s and '90s, LL sold millions of albums and had many hit songs. Today, many fans might know LL more for his acting, but music was LL's first love. LL Cool J tells the story of how LL made his name in rap when he was still just a teenager. Read about how LL became one of hip-hop's first superstars. Learn about how LL moved to making movies without giving up the music career he loved.
LOU ANDREAS SALOMÉ
by Lázaro Droznes Pablo BarrantesDramatic fiction illustrating an extraordinary woman's rapport with three extraordinary men: Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud. Lou Andreas-Salomé had a love affair with Rilke, an intimate friendship with Nietzsche and a pupil, confidant propinquity with Freud. A muse of a woman who without a doubt had a vast influence on these, at the time, relatively unknown men.
LRRP Team Leader: A Memoir of Vietnam
by John BurfordVietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in precision strikes, and rescued downed pilots. The lives of the entire team depended on his leadership and their combined skill and guts. A single mistake--a moment of panic--could mean death for everyone.From the Paperback edition.
LS Lowry
by Damian HarveyFollow the life of LS Lowry from his childhood industrial roots to becoming a modern day celebrity artist.Discover the stories of people who have helped to shape history, ranging from early explorers such as Christopher Columbus to more modern figures like Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.These chapter books combine historical fact with engaging narrative and humourous illustration, perfect for the newly independent reader.
LS Lowry (History Heroes #8)
by Damian HarveyFollow the life of LS Lowry from his childhood industrial roots to becoming a modern day celebrity artist.Discover the stories of people who have helped to shape history, ranging from early explorers such as Christopher Columbus to more modern figures like Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.These chapter books combine historical fact with engaging narrative and humourous illustration, perfect for the newly independent reader.
LULA, biografia. Volume 1
by Fernando MoraisA história improvável de um homem que se tornou, simultaneamente, símbolo e agente de mudança de um dos maiores países do mundo. Além de juízos ou paixões, Lula da Silva está entre as maiores figuras políticas da história do Brasil. Oriundo da classe operária, opositor ativo e convicto de uma ditadura militar que sufocou a sociedade e a economia brasileiras entre 1964 e 1985, a sua história e as suas lutas confundem-se com as de um povo que, por duas vezes, o elegeu presidente da nação. A partir de dezenas de horas de depoimentos e com acesso direto e constante a Lula, Fernando Morais, exímio biógrafo, conduz o leitor de forma hábil pela história magnética e carismática de um homem que marcou um país. De uma infância e juventude de privações ao início da vida como operário e à aproximação ao movimento sindical, passando pelas greves históricas do ABC, pela fundação do Partido dos Trabalhadores e seu pelo ingresso, semretorno, no mundo da política, o primeiro volume de Lula relata os momentos charneira de um homem que se tornou, simultaneamente, símbolo e agente de mudança de um dos maiores países do mundo.
La Argentina imaginada: Una biografía del pensamiento nacional
by Hernán BrienzaLos principales exponentes en 200 años de nacionalismo argentino. De Mariano Moreno y Juan Bautista Alberdi al Peronismo. Del nacionalismo de elite al socialismo nacional. Una mirada crítica sobre los imaginarios de Nación hasta la actualidad. "Quizás sea buena idea pensar al nacionalismo como una filosofía práctica, concreta, comunitaria, de valores marcados por la amistad", propone Hernán Brienza. Para ello reconstruye los pilares sobre los que se erigieron 200 años de imaginarios. Interesado en la erradicación de las formas represivas con las que ha sido pensado el nacimiento y el desarrollo del capitalismo argentino por una clase dominante, sugiere ver al Estado como un espacio de encuentro entre ciudadanos. "Los argentinos, salvo en contadas ocasiones, no hemos podido construir una Nación homogénea. Apenas hemos logrado diseñar un teatro de operaciones en el que protagonizamos un combate perpetuo entre nosotros mismos." Para revertir esta perversa dinámica social que mantiene al país preso de un virtual "empate hegemónico", el autor repasa vida y obra de escritores y políticos argentinos y analiza las circunstancias históricas internas y globales en las que surgieron y difundieron las ideas de Belgrano, Alberdi, Sarmiento, Gálvez, Ricardo Rojas, Lugones, Manuel Ugarte, Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, Jauretche, Juan José Hernández Arregui y Juan Domingo Perón, entre otros Apasionante y revelador, este abordaje dinámico construye un fresco que parte de la literatura y la historia, para sistematizar un ideario tan amplio que abarca desde nociones republicanas y fascistas, pasando por la derecha y la izquierda, hasta el catolicismo, el liberalismo y la revolución.
La Baronesa. Una vida de novela
by Nieves HerreroLa esperada novela sobre la vida de Tita Cervera. Esta aventura literaria comenzó a finales de 2019, cuando Carmen Thyssen me llamó por teléfono y me pidió que escribiera un libro sobre su vida. Mi única condición fue narrar las cosas tal como habían sido, con sus luces y sus sombras. Poco a poco me fui introduciendo en su mundo y, durante tres años, mantuve encuentros y largas conversaciones con ella en su casa de La Moraleja.Descubrí a una mujer de novela: una infancia con padres separados,una juventud romántica y un concurso de belleza, el de Miss España, que puso su vida del revés. Su romance con Lex Barker y las sombras que llegaron tras su muerte. Su relación con Espartaco Santoni, con su sórdido final. El nacimiento de Borja y la aparición de Heini, que la convertiría en baronesa y coleccionista. Su mala relación con Blanca Cuesta y la llegada de las mellizas, Carmen y Sabina...La historia de su vida iba avanzando ante mis ojos hasta que un día Tita comentó en una entrevista de televisión que ella misma iba a ser la autora de su biografía. Cancelaba, pues, nuestro trabajo conjunto de tres años. Nos enterábamos todos a la vez: los espectadores, la editorial y yo. Tita deseaba hacer memoria, pero creo que los abogados han tenido y tienen un lugar demasiado preferente en su vida.Hoy os presento este libro, diferente al que tenía pensado escribir, pero tal vez por ello aún más interesante. Una novela biográfica con hechos y personajes reales. Una historia con una protagonista a la que he llegado a admirar, pero a quien nunca he conseguido comprender realmente. Sin duda, el personaje más fascinante de las últimas décadas. Reseñas:«Tita Cervera: la baronesa filántropa que lo niega todo, pero no se priva de nada».AYANTA BARILLI «De no haber existido en la vida real, Tita Cervera habría sido un maravilloso personaje de novela».MARÍA DUEÑAS «Tita y Borja no se entienden porque en el fondo fondo, aunque parezca mentira, pertenecen a clases sociales diferentes. Es lo que pasa cuando te sale un hijo rico».JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS, El País «Hay personas a quienes nos apetece conocer de la misma manera que nos acercamos a un cuadro: con ganas de saber más y de hacerlo con detalle; siempre encuentras cosas que no ves a simple vista».REYES MONFORTE «Muchos, procelosos y hasta miserables, han sido los caminos para obtener un título nobiliario; y aunque el de Tita, en el reino de España, sea un poco de latón, no ha sido ni inusual ni el peor. Y si París bien valió una misa, el Museo Thyssen bien vale una bula, una indulgencia plenaria y una absolución».ANTONIO PÉREZ HENARES «La baronesa Thyssen tiene una cara oculta que la hace fascinante. Su pasión por el esoterismo y lo invisible, desconocida para el gran público, la convierte en una dama de otra época. Nieves Herrero ha sabido captar esa faceta como nadie».JAVIER SIERRA
La Belle Créole: The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
by Alina García-LapuertaThe adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Raised in Cuba and shipped off to live with her socialite mother in Spain at the age of 13, Mercedes triumphed over the political chaos that blanketed Europe in the Napoleonic days, by charming aristocrats from all sides with her exotic beauty and singing voice. She married General Merlin in Napoleon's army and discussed painting with Francisco de Goya. In Paris she hosted the city's premier musical salon where Liszt, Rossini, and great divas of the day performed for Rothschilds, Balzac, and royalty. Celebrated as one of the greatest amateur sopranos of her day, Mercedes also achieved fame as a writer. Her memoirs and travel writings introduced European audiences to 19th-century Cuban society and contributed to the debate over slavery. Mercedes has recently been rediscovered as Cuba's earliest female author and one who deserves a place in the canon of Latin American literature.
La Berkins: Una combatiente de frontera
by Fernández JosefinaBiografía única de Lohana Berkins, travesti y activista fundamental de la diversidad, los derechos de las minorías sexuales en Argentina y Latinoamérica. «La Berkins. Una combatiente de frontera tiene momentos de gran novela latinoamericana.»María Moreno Vos, que sos antropóloga, explicame. ¿Por qué me pasa esto justo ahora, que tengo un buen trabajo, vacaciones, obra social, cobro bien y hago lo que me gusta? ¿Por qué? La pregunta de Lohana era para su amiga y compañera de militancia Josefina Fernández, a quien años antes había invitado a escribir juntas su biografía. No llegaron a hacerlo: murió el 5 de febrero de 2016. Nacida en un pequeño pueblo de Salta, Lohana fue expulsada de la casa familiar siendo muy chica y forzada a ejercer la prostitución para sobrevivir. Aprendió a caminar en la frontera. A finales de los 80, se instaló en Buenos Aires y se cruzó a diario con chongos, rufianas, garrones y policía. Se enamoró y, peleando por la derogación de los edictos policiales, se convirtió en una líder única cuya principal batalla fue el derecho a la identidad. Abrazó el feminismo y fue la primera travesti que consiguió un empleo formal. La Berkins. Una combatiente de frontera enhebra magistralmente la intimidad con el manifiesto, la crónica policial con la memoria afectiva, la etnografía con la historia y la política: libro lúcido, descarnado y también vital, creativo e hilarante, como su protagonista.
La Boutique Obscure
by Daniel Levin Becker Georges PerecThe beguiling, never-before-translated dream diary of Georges PerecIn La Boutique Obscure Perec once again revolutionized literary form, creating the world's first "nocturnal autobiography." From 1968 until 1972--the period when he wrote his most well-known works--the beloved French stylist recorded his dreams. But as you might expect, his approach was far from orthodox.Avoiding the hazy psychoanalysis of most dream journals, he challenged himself to translate his visions and subconscious churnings directly into prose. In laying down the nonsensical leaps of the imagination, he finds new ways to express the texture and ambiguity of dreams--those qualities that prove so elusive.Beyond capturing a universal experience for the first time and being a fine document of literary invention, La Boutique Obscure contains the seeds of some of Perec's most famous books. It is also an intimate portrait of one of the great innovators of modern literature.
La Casa Que El Queso Construyo: Vida Inusual Del Emigrante Mexicano Que Definio Una Industria Global Multibillonaria
by Miguel A. LealA quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope Leal came to the U.S. penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the U.S. market and grew his company to a multibillion-dollar success story. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal’s great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Leal’s memoir, THE HOUSE THAT CHEESE BUILT, is both a beautiful illustration of the immigrant experience—isolation, fear, and ambition for a better life and assimilation—as well as a thoughtful personal account of entrepreneurship and all its benefits and costs.
La Causa: The Migrant Farm Workers' Story
by Alex Haley Richard Larios Dana Catherine de RuizDescribes the efforts in the 1960s of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers.
La Clínica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders (Literature and Medicine Series)
by David P. SklarIn 1972, when the world around him was making little sense, David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community clinic in rural Mexico. With absolutely no medical experience beyond being accepted to medical school at Stanford, Sklar literally learned medicine by practicing it. With duties that ranged from suturing wounds and delivering babies to digging latrines to pulling teeth, his time at the clinic took him into the heart of a medical world that the sterilized walls of the twentieth century would never have shown him. The experience challenged his idealism and, ultimately, molded him into a skilled emergency physician.Years later, deeply immersed in the stress of running the ER at the University of New Mexico Hospital and facing a divorce, Sklar decided to revisit the Mexican village and clinic that provided inspiration and grounding in the early stages of his career. Weaving together his time in Mexico, his later career, and his marriage, Sklar's memoir offers a thought-provoking meditation on the virtues of idealism in the face of the inevitable failures that haunt all human endeavors.
La Cuba de Castro y después...: Entre la historia y la biografía
by Marcos Antonio Ramos¿Dictador o libertador? ¿Genio caritativo o tirano opresor? El doctor Marcos Antonio Ramos se enfoca de manera equilibrada y analiza al líder cubano, Fidel Castro, y el contexto histórico que rodea su influencia. Ramos escribe desde una perspectiva privilegiada dentro y fuera de Cuba y presenta a un hombre que ha sido en momentos odiado, en momentos querido, ignorado o aceptado por sus contemporáneos alrededor del mundo. Desde su ascenso al poder, sus inicios en la vida política, la influencia recíproca del Che Guevara, y la influencia que tuvo Castro sobre gran parte del desarrollo de Latinoamérica, La Cuba de Castro y después... incluye temas como:1. La era de la Guerra Fría2. Los varios éxodos de la población 3. El aislamiento4. El posicionamiento actual y la influencia de Castro en la formación de los líderes actuales de Latinoamérica5. El lugar de Castro en la historia6. Una Cuba sin Castro y su función y posición en el futuro de Latinoamérica
La Dama en El Árbol: La Historia de Lek, una chica de bar en Pattaya (Detrás de la Sonrisa #4)
by Owen JonesLa serie Detrás de la Sonrisa (Behind The Smile) es la historia de Lek, una chica de bar en Pattaya, Tailandia. Lek nació como la mayor de cuatro hijos en una típica familia de cultivadores de arroz en el cinturón del arroz al norte de Tailandia. Un día ocurrió una catástrofe: su joven padre murió y dejó a su familia con enormes deudas las cuales desconocían completamente. Lek tenía sólo veinte años y era la única que podía evitar el embargo de la granja familiar y permitir que su hermana menor y sus dos hermanos siguieran estudiando. Sin embargo, la única forma que conocía era ir a trabajar al bar de su prima en Pattaya. ¿Puede una chica de bar de Pattaya volver a ser una novia o esposa normal? " Detrás de la Sonrisa" es un vistazo a una parte de Tailandia, un país conocido en todo el mundo como "el país de las sonrisas". La Dama en el Arbol continúa directamente desde el tercer libro, Maya - Ilusión. Lek aún continua en el negocio con su vieja amiga Ayr y también van en serio, sobre todo cuando los rivales de los alrededores intentan intimidarlas. Las dos amigas llevan a cabo una solución audaz, que ni siquiera pueden comentar con sus amigos, familiares o maridos. Soom sigue en la universidad de Bangkok y le va bien a pesar de tener sus propios problemas, por no hablar de los inminentes exámenes finales, que la agitación política de la capital amenaza con interrumpir. Craig sigue escribiendo, pero de repente se da cuenta de que tiene problemas mayores que terminar y vender sus libros. Un vieja amiga y una anciana les dan a las tres mujeres unos consejos extraordinariamente parecidos y acertados, pero ¿a dónde les llevarán?
La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France
by Bronwen McSheaA rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society—and who would come to rule them both.Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, Marie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her family rise to prominence. Instead, she became a widow at eighteen and rose to become the indispensable and highly visible right-hand of the most powerful figure in French politics—the ruthless Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu was her uncle and, as he lay dying, the Cardinal broke with tradition and entrusted her, above his male heirs, with his vast fortune. She would go on to shape her country&’s political, religious, and cultural life as the unconventional and independent Duchesse d&’Aiguillon in ways that reverberated across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Marie de Vignerot was respected, beloved, and feared by churchmen, statesmen, financiers, writers, artists, and even future canonized saints. Many would owe their careers and eventual historical legacies to her patronage and her enterprising labor and vision. Pope Alexander VII and even the Sun King, Louis XIV, would defer to her. She was one of the most intelligent, accomplished, and occasionally ruthless French leaders of the seventeenth century. Yet, as all too often happens to great women in history, she was all but forgotten by modern times. La Duchesse is the first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot, putting her onto center stage in the histories of France and the globalizing Catholic Church where she belongs. In these pages, we see Marie navigate scandalous accusations and intrigue to creatively and tenaciously champion the people and causes she cared about. We also see her engage with fascinating personalities such as Queen Marie de Médici and influence French imperial ambitions and the Fronde Civil War. Filled with adventure and daring, art and politics, La Duchesseestablishes Vignerot as a figure without whom France&’s storied Golden Age cannot be fully understood.
La Dénazification de Leni: L'incroyable histoire de Leni Riefenstahl dans l'Allemagne nazie
by Lázaro DroznesCette fiction dramatique recrée le procès de Leni Riefenstahl, mené par le comité de la dénazification alliée, afin de déterminer leur degré de responsabilité dans les crimes nazis dans le cadre de la campagne de dénazification menée dans l'Allemagne de l'après-guerre. Différentes scènes de ses documentaires sont utilisées comme preuve contre lui, affirmant qu'ils avaient été utilisés comme des outils de propagande du régime. Leni défend son indépendance et son autonomie en tant qu'artiste. Au cours du procès, la relation entre les artistes et le pouvoir, la nécessité de développer une carrière dans l’art qui ne dépend pas du pouvoir politique et la possibilité de créer un art de l’art lui-même apparaissent comme un thème. Un art qui se justifie.