Neal Gabler

Winchell

Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity

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Produktbeschreibung

Hailed as the most important and entertaining biography in recent memory, Gabler's account of the life of fast-talking gossip columnist and radio broadcaster Walter Winchell "fuses meticulous research with a deft grasp of the cultural nuances of an era when virtually everyone who mattered paid homage to Winchell" (Time). of photos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780679764397
• ISBN-10: 0679764399
• Artikelnr.: 22362523

Autorenporträt

Neal Gabler is the author of five books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood; Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity; Life: the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality;  Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination; and, most recently,  Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power for the Yale Jewish Lives series. His essays and articles have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Playboy, Newsweek, and Vogue, and he has been the recipient of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Time magazine's nonfiction book of the year,  USA Today's biography of the year, a National Book Critics Circle nomination, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Public Policy Scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Patrick Henry Fellowship at Washington College's CV Starr Center. He has also served as the chief nonfiction judge of the National Book Awards. Gabler is currently a professor for the MFA program at Stonybrook Southampton.