Jerry Oppenheimer
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This intimate and thoroughly unauthorized portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family's odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour. From Conrad Hilton, the eccentric "innkeeper to the world" who built a global empire beginning in the Depression with a fleabag in a dusty Texas backwater, to Paris Hilton, his great-granddaughter, whose fame took off with a sex video, this book is the portrait of one of America's most outrageous dynasties.--From...
2) The other Mrs. Kennedy: Ethel Skakel Kennedy : an American drama of power, privilege, and politics
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
America possesses indelible images of Ethel Skakel Kennedy: the vivacious political partner vigorously campaigning next to her ambitious husband; an American madonna, surrounded by her brood of eleven children; most poignant, a grief-stricken wife cradling her husband's head as he lay mortally wounded.
Unlike her glamorous sister-in-law Jackie, Ethel felt a compulsive need to prove herself "more Kennedy than thou." Because of her unrelenting loyalty,...