Tag archieven: Biografie

Biografie, Engeland, Engelse geschiedenis, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Andrew Lownie – Entitled

Andrew Lownie Entitled review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie over de opkomst en ondergang van Prins Andrew en Sarah Ferguson. Op 14 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij William Collins het boek van Andrew Lownie, de Engelse biograaf, over de opkomst en ondergang van het huis York. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Lownie Entitled review en recensie

  • “The Rise and Fall of the House of York is the most devastating royal biography ever written.” (Daily Mail)
  • “This searing biography of Prince Andrew crackles with scandals about sex and money on almost every page. The author’s best-selling biographies have a habit of changing the reputation of famous figures… Although in the case of Entitled, he hasn’t so much cemented Prince Andrew’s reputation, as put it in concrete boots and thrown it in the river. It is hard to see how he might come back from this.” (BBC News)
  • “Explosive … Makes Prince Harry’s Spare look positively restrained.” (Sunday Times)
  • “Entitled, Andrew Lownie’s biography of the Duke and Duchess of York, is a 400-page character assassination.” (The Times)
  • “Schandaalprins Andrew is nog walgelijker dan iedereen al dacht.” (Libelle)

Andrew Lownie Entitled

Entitled

The Rise and Fall of the House of York

  • Auteur: Andrew Lownie (Engeland_
  • Soort boek: biografie van Prins Andrew
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Collins
  • Verschijnt: 14 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Prins Andrew geschreven door Andrew Lownie

Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before, the book traces the lives of the late Queen’s second son and his ex-wife through their childhoods, courtship, marriage, divorce, careers, and royal and charitable activities.

Still living in the same house, they claim to be ‘the happiest divorced couple in the world’. The book investigates the reality of their relationship and their love lives. It charts Andrew’s record in the Falklands, his business activities and reveals details of how the couple have been able financially to sustain their extravagant lifestyles. It also recounts the full story of the Yorks’ links with Jeffrey Epstein.

Chronicling their lives in parallel, the picture that emerges is of a spoilt prince unable to connect and a duchess pushed by her insecurities into a desperate need to maintain the attention her ‘royal’ status brought. Rigorously researched and packed full of revelations, this is eye-watering biography at its best.

Andrew Lownie was born in december 1961. He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, before taking his master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College. He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency. He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).

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Biografie, Egypte, Midden-Oosten

Anne Alexander – Nasser

Anne Alexander Nasser review, recensie en informatie over de biografie van Gamal Abd al-Nasser, de president van Egypte 1956-1970. Op 3 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Haus Publishing de biografie van President Nasser van Egypte, geschreven door Anne Alexander. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Anne Alexander Nasser review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Nasser, de biografie van de tweede president van Egypte, geschreven door Anne Alexander, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Anne Alexander Nasser

Nasser

  • Auteur: Anne Alexander (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie van Gamal Abd al-Nasser
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Haus Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 2 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de Egyptische president Nasser

More than fifty years after his death, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser continues to influence the Arab world. As one of the young officers who overthrew British-backed King Farouk in 1952, Nasser rose to prominence as a charismatic visionary who challenged foreign dominance. At just 36 years old, he became the undisputed leader of Egypt in a presidency that would run from 1956 to 1970.

This insightful biography delves into Nasser’s life, charting his rise to power, his nationalisation of the Suez Canal and his turbulent years as president. Many in the Arab world celebrate his defiance of colonial rule and his dream of Arab unity, but Nasser’s legacy is not without its contradictions; critics have alluded, for instance, to his autocratic rule and unfulfilled promises. In Nasser, Anne Alexander explores the tension between Nasser’s revolutionary ideas and the reality of his governance, offering a nuanced portrait of one of the most complex figures of the modern Middle East.

Anne Alexander is a researcher specialising on leadership, collective action and social movements in the Middle East. She has written for Middle East International and has worked for the BBC World Service. She is currently Learning Director of the Cambridge Digital Humanities network at the University of Cambridge.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Biografie, Slavernij

Angela F. Murphy – Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie review, recensie en informatie boek over de koning van Underground Railroad. Op 28 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Black Lives de biografie van abolitionist Jermain Wesley Loguen. Het boek is geschreven door Angela F. Murphy. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie review en recensie

  • “For too long, Loguen’s incredible activism, courage, and contributions to Black freedom have been understudied. For his life, we owe Loguen a great debt. For Angela Murphy’s painstaking scholarship, we owe deep gratitude.” (Kellie Carter Jackson)
  • “Angela F. Murphy, author of the definitive study of the ‘Jerry Rescue,’ has written a superb biography of a leader of that struggle, the Reverend Jermain Loguen, himself a fugitive slave from middle Tennessee.” (R.J.M. Blackett)
  • “Murphy shines a brilliant spotlight on a vital but underappreciated abolitionist. This is the definitive account of a defiant fugitive who sought, for himself and others, a land for the free and homes for the brave.” (W. Caleb McDaniel)

Angela F. Murphy Jermain Wesley Loguen biografie

Jermain Wesley Loguen

Defiant Fugitive

  • Auteur: Angela F. Murphy (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lives
  • Verschijnt: 28 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 312 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Jermain Wesley Loguen

A gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the King of the Underground Railroad.

Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813–1872) was a fugitive from slavery, an abolitionist, and a minister, teacher, and political activist. He worked alongside Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and his home in Syracuse, New York, was among the most publicized Underground Railroad stations in the northern states. Loguen’s political commitments in the years before the Civil War were carried out at great personal risk, for he had liberated himself from slavery in Tennessee and was in constant danger of being captured and reenslaved under the Fugitive Slave Law. Defiantly, however, he refused to purchase his own freedom, an act that he believed would have legitimized the rights of slaveholders. In addition to aiding fellow fugitives from slavery, Loguen worked tirelessly to promote Black equality and uplift throughout upstate New York and Canada. After Emancipation, he extended his work to aid freedpeople in the South and to advocate for Black equality on a national scale.

In this engaging study, Angela F. Murphy follows Loguen from his early years through his transformation into one of the brightest stars in the constellation of abolitionists and reformers in New York.

Angela F. Murphy is a professor in the Department of History at Texas State University. She is the author of The Jerry Rescue: The Fugitive Slave Law, Northern Rights, and the American Sectional Crisis. She lives in Wimberley, Texas.

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Biografie, Filosofie, Filosoof

Anthony Gottlieb – Ludwig Wittgenstein biografie

Anthony Gottlieb Ludwig Wittgenstein biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek over de filosoof. Op 21 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie van de Oostenrijks-Britse filosoof Ludwig Wittgenstein. Het boek is geschreven door Anthony Gottlieb . Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Anthony Gottlieb Ludwig Wittgenstein biografie recensie en review

  • “With philosophical sophistication and writerly grace, Anthony Gottlieb crafts a narrative rich with historical and intellectual detail and subtlety. But though the vistas can be broad, the result is an intimate portrait of a thinker who redefined the boundaries of philosophy.” (Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University)
  • “The outline of Wittgenstein’s life is well known. But he remains enigmatic, and in this book Anthony Gottlieb casts valuable new light on the role of his family, and of his wider intellectual and musical environment, in fashioning the strange and contradictory genius he became.” (Simon Blackburn)

Anthony Gottlieb Ludwig Wittgenstein biografie

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes

  • Auteur: Anthony Gottlieb (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie van de Oostenrijks-Britse filosoof
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 21 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 232 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Ludwig Wittgenstein biografie van Anthony Gottlieb

The first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

According to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosophy is a “battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” This audacious idea changed the way many of its practitioners saw their subject. In the first biography of Wittgenstein in more than three decades, Anthony Gottlieb evaluates this revolutionary idea, explaining the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought and his place in the history of philosophy.

Wittgenstein was born into an immensely rich Viennese family but yearned to live a simple life, and he gave away his inheritance. After studying with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge, he wrote his famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus while serving in World War I. He then took several positions as a primary-school teacher in rural Austria before returning as a fellow to Cambridge, where a cultlike following developed around him. Wittgenstein worked not only as a philosopher and schoolteacher, but also as an aeronautical engineer in Manchester and as an architect in Vienna.

Gottlieb’s meticulously researched book traces the itinerant and troubled life of Wittgenstein, the development of his influential ideas, and the Viennese intellectual milieu and family background that shaped him.

Anthony Gottlieb is born in 1956. He is an author, book critic, and former executive editor of The Economist. He is the author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance and The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy.

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Biografie, Muziek, Popmuziek

Lesley-Ann Jones – Love, Freddie

Lesley-Ann Jones Love, Freddie recensie, review en informatie boek over het geheime leven van Freddie Mercury de zanger van Queen. Op 5 september 2025 verschijnt bij Kosmos Uitgevers het boek van Lesley-Ann Jones over Freddie Mercury. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Lesley-Ann Jones Love, Freddie recensie en review

  • “De dagboeken waren geschreven in zijn eigen handschrift, met een balpen, in zijn eigen woorden. Hij nam me in vertrouwen, zijn enige kind en zijn naaste bloedverwant … Freddie Mercury was en is mijn vader.” (B.)

Lesley-Ann Jones Love, Freddie

Love, Freddie

Het geheime leven van Freddie Mercury

Flaptekst van de biografie van Freddie Mercury van Lesley-Ann Jones

Op 5 september verschijnt Love, Freddie — de nieuwe, persoonlijke biografie van Freddie Mercury, gebaseerd op zijn handgeschreven dagboeken en het verhaal van zijn dochter ‘B’, die decennialang geheim is gebleven. Voor het eerst krijgen we een uniek kijkje in het leven van de rocklegende: een kwetsbare, grappige en soms gekwelde man, maar vooral ook een toegewijde vader.

‘B’ deelt openhartig over haar band met haar vader, die hij vanaf haar geboorte tot zijn laatste levensjaar koesterde. Muziekjournalist Lesley-Ann Jones werkte ruim drie jaar samen met ‘B’ om deze bijzondere nalatenschap samen te brengen en het verhaal achter de dagboeken te vertellen.

In Love, Freddie onthult Lesley-Ann Jones een kant van Freddie Mercury die bijna niemand kende. Toen de legendarische Queen-frontman in 1991 overleed, liet hij zeventien met de hand geschreven dagboeken achter – vol persoonlijke gedachten, herinneringen en reflecties.

Biograaf Lesley-Ann Jones kreeg toegang tot dit unieke materiaal. Ze dook drieënhalf jaar lang in Freddies geheime notitieboeken en schreef op basis daarvan een meeslepend, intiem en onthullend portret van de man achter de wereldberoemde stem.

In dit boek lees je:

  • hoe Freddie worstelde met zijn identiteit
  • welke angsten en verlangens hij verborgen hield
  • wat de inspiratie was achter zijn bekendste nummers
  • over zijn relaties en grootste liefdes

Love, Freddie is het ware verhaal van Freddie Mercury: openhartig, ontroerend en onverwacht intiem.

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Australië, Biografie, Motoren, Motorsport, Sportbiografie

Jacques Bussillet – Jack Findlay

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie over de motorcoureur uit Australië. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Veloce het Engelstalige boek over motorcoureur Jack Finlay, held van het legendarische Continental Circus. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling vanhet boek verkrijgbaar.

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Jack Finlay, Hero of the Continental Circus, het boek geschreven door Jacques Bussilet, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Jacques Bussillet Jack Findlay

Jack Findlay

Hero of the Continental Circus

  • Auteur: Jacques Bussilet (Frankrijk)
  • Soort boek: motorsport boek, portret
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Veloce
  • Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 25,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Australische motorcoureur Jack Findlay

Jack Findlay: The fearless privateer who became the heart and soul of the legendary Continental Circus.

Among the heroic riders in the Continental Circus was an Australian named Jack Findlay, who became a role model for these modern gladiators mounted on two wheels. His talent and courage meant he was often referred to as the “best privateer in the world”.

For nearly 30 years, a group of daring motorcycle riders toured Europe, competing on perilous circuits. Driving small vans loaded with their racing motorcycles, they formed a nomadic spectacle that came to be known as the Continental Circus. While some riders gained fame through races that contributed to world championships, many remained unsung heroes. The 1969 movie Continental Circus celebrated these brave racers—individuals who risked their lives for the sheer love and passion of the sport.

Among these fearless riders was Australian Jack Findlay, a legendary figure who became a role model for the ‘modern gladiators’ of motorcycle racing. Known as the ‘best privateer in the world’, Findlay’s immense talent and unshakable determination set him apart as he competed against factory-backed superstars with far greater resources. He embodied the very spirit of the Continental Circus and all it stood for.

This book delves into Jack Findlay’s extraordinary journey, honouring a solitary yet immensely gifted and resilient rider who defined an era of motorcycle racing.

Jacques Bussillet is a French journalist and writer who saw his first motorcycle race when he was nine-years-old, and followed the Continental Circus as mechanic and helper. After studying journalism at university, he reported about Grand Prix motorcycle racing during the 1970s and ’80s for the leading weekly Moto Journal and the daily sport newspaper l’Equipe. He met and knew all the players of motorcycle racing and has kept in contact with this world. He has published around 20 books about motorcycle sport and champions.

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Biografie, Nieuw-Zeeland, Nieuw-Zeelandse schrijfster

Gerri Kimber – Katherine Mansfield biografie

Gerri Kimber Katherine Mansfield biografie review, recensie en informatie van het boek over de Nieuw-Zeelandse schrijfster. Op 1 november 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books de biografie van Katherine Mansfield. Het boek is geschreven door Gerri Kimber. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Gerri Kimber Katherine Mansfield biografie review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Katherine Mansfield, A Hidden Life, geschreven door Gerri Kimber, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Gerri Kimber Katherine Mansfield Biografie

Katherine Mansfield

A Hidden Life

  • Auteur: Gerri Kimber
  • Soort boek: biografie van Katherine Mansfield
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 november 2025
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: £ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Katherine Mansfield de Nieuw-Zeelandse schrijfster

The life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers.

This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers. On the fringes of Bloomsbury, and friends with D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot and many others, Mansfield was at the heart of literary London at its most experimental. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just 34, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield’s ‘was the only writing I was ever jealous of’. Based on compelling new research, Gerri Kimber challenges previous conceptions surrounding the author’s life, uncovers friendships and relationships formerly barely acknowledged and offers innovative readings of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories.

Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She was president of the Katherine Mansfield Society for ten years (2010–20) and has published extensively on Mansfield’s life and work.

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Biografie, Geschiedenisboeken, Japan, Japanse geschiedenis

Frederik Cryns – In the Service of the Shogun

Frederik Cryns In the Service of the Shogun review, recensie en informatie boek en biografie met ware verhaal van William Adams. Op 1 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Reaktion Books het boek van de Vlaamse historicus, Japankenner hoogleraar Japanse geschiedenis aan het International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar van het boek.

Frederik Cryns In the Service of the Shogun review en recensie

  • “In the Service of the Shogun . . . is an exhaustively researched work based on a wide collection of primary sources, including letters written by Adams, as well as official journals, diaries and documents – among them Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. Students of Japanese history and culture owe Mr. Cryns a debt of gratitude for this impressive achievement.” (Wall Street Journal)
  • “In the Service of the Shogun, a biography by Frederik Cryns subtitled as The Real Story of William Adams. Most readers know Adams as the inspiration for James Clavell’s novel Shogun. Adams’s experiences are such that one wonders why Clavell even bothered fictionalizing them: Five ships set off from Holland in 1598, but after 19 months at sea, only one ship remained and only nine men survived to set foot on Japanese soil. Arrested as pirates and sentenced to death, Adams somehow rose to be a trusted advisor of military leader Tokugawa Ieyasu.” (Japan Times)

Frederik Cryns In the Service of the Shogun

In the Service of the Shogun

The Real Story of William Adams

  • Auteur: Frederik Cryns (België)
  • Soort boek: Japanse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engesl
  • Uitgever: Reaktion Books
  • Verschijnt: 1 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 232 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over William Adams, een Engelsman in dienst van de Shogun

The extraordinary story of William Adams, the real-life inspiration for the TV series Shōgun.

In 1600 English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan’s most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams’s rise from humble pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan’s foreign relations. It unravels the subsequent diplomatic manoeuvres of the Western powers in the shogun’s empire, and Adams’s eventual downfall.

This is the first full biography of Adams based on original Dutch, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese sources, and includes much previously unknown information. Frederik Cryns tells the authentic story of Adams’s chequered life in its historical context, taking us on a compelling journey into Adams’s complex inner feelings and cosmopolitan heart.

Frederik Cryns was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He is Professor of Japanese History at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. He is the author of several bestselling books in Japanese on the early interaction of the Western world with Japan. In addition to his academic work, Frederik appears regularly on Japanese television history programmes and supervised the historical aspects of the television series Shōgun (2024).

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Biografie, Film, filmboek, Lifestyleboek

Amy Odell – Gwyneth Paltrow biografie

Amy Odell Gwyneth Paltrow biografie review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse actrice. Op 29 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Gellery Books Gwyneth, The Biography, geschreven door Amy Odell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Amy Odell Gwyneth Paltrow biografie review en recensie

  • “Amy Odell’s dishy biography of the actress and wellness guru examines how she became such an inspirational, aspirational and ultimately unknowable icon.” (The Washington Post)
  • “Gwyneth: The Biography is a satisfying read about the pioneering and polarizing actor and business woman.” (AP News)

Amy Odell Gwyneth Paltrow biografie

Gwyneth

The Biography

  • Auteur: Amy Odell (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
  • Taal; Engels
  • Uitgever: Gallery Books
  • Verschijnt: 29 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 30,99 / $ 16,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van actrice Gwyneth Paltrow

New York Times bestselling author Amy Odell takes readers inside the world of one of the most influential and polarizing celebrities of the modern era—complete with exclusive new stories about her childhood, acting career, romances, and her lifestyle brand Goop.

Love her or hate her, Gwyneth Paltrow has managed to stay on the A-list, her influence spanning entertainment, fashion, and the modern wellness industry. Gwyneth was born to parents viewed as Hollywood royalty, and that immense privilege turned her into a target of backlash when, at just twenty-six, she won an Oscar. Rather than cave in to criticism, she leveraged the attention for valuable endorsement deals and film roles, eventually founding her controversial wellness and lifestyle company, Goop.

Over the decades, she has participated in countless carefully managed interviews, but the real Gwyneth—the basis of her motives, desires, strengths, faults, and vulnerabilities—has never been fully revealed, until now. Based on exclusive conversations with more than 220 sources, including close current and former friends and colleagues, this deeply researched biography provides insight and behind-the-scenes details of her relationships, family, friendships, iconic films, and tenure as the CEO of Goop. Gwyneth offers the fascinating, definitive look at how Paltrow rose to prominence, stayed in the limelight, and shaped culture—for better or worse—for so long.

Amy Odell is the author of Anna: The Biography, an in-depth examination of Anna Wintour, and the essay collection Tales from the Back Row. A veteran culture and fashion journalist, she writes the influential newsletter Back Row. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, New York magazine, and numerous other publications.

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Biografie, Canada, Muziek

Stephen T. Lewis – Richard Manuel biografie

Stephen T. Lewis Richard Manuel biografie review, recensie en informatie boek over zijn leven en muziek, van de Hawks en Bob Dylan tot The Band. Op 24 juni 2025 verschijnt bij Schiffer Publishing de biografie van Richard Manuel de op 4 maart 1986 overleden zanger, pianist en lid van The Band. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Stephen T. Lewis Richard Manuel biografie review en recensie

  • “The book has made his haunting voice come to life, succeeding in the most difficult of tasks–highlighting the heartbreak of what might have seemed a foregone conclusion.” (The Wall Street Journal)
  • “It’s hard to imagine American music in the sixties and seventies without The Band, even though they never quite got the attention and sales they deserved. Yet the country/folk/blues end of rock would not have existed without them. And though other band members got more attention, Richard Manuel’s voice and classic blues piano were at the very core of that music. Which is why Stephen Lewis’ Richard Manuel deserves serious attention. It fills a major gap in our understanding.” (Dennis McNally)

Stephen T. Lewis Richard Manuel biografie

Richard Manuel

His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band

  • Auteur: Stephen T. Lewis (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, muziekboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Schiffer Publishing
  • Verschijnt: 24 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon /  Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie Richard Manuel van The Band

For the first time—in an official biography endorsed by his family—the Band’s legendary Richard Manuel’s compositions and performances are analyzed with expert commentary while shining a light on his contributions to all of his bands—and on the undeniable impact he had on rock music.

Richard Manuel was a fearless original. Sweetly soulful as a vocalist and endearingly creative as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, he was a vital part of some of rock ’n’ roll’s pivotal moments, including Bob Dylan’s controversial move to electric music, Woodstock 1969, and the legendary Last Waltz.

Through thoughtful research and analysis, this book places Manuel’s troubled yet inspired spirit within a musical and historical context.

For the first time, Manuel’s compositions and performances are critiqued with expert commentary—alongside new interviews with family, friends, and fellow musicians, including Eric Clapton and Van Morrison.

The story traces Manuel’s journey from Stratford, Ontario, to Woodstock, New York, and beyond, beginning with his first band, the Revols, then singing the blues with Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Garth Hudson in the Hawks, the group that would later become the Band.

Manuel’s influence was profound, his distinctive vocals infusing songs with emotion and depth. His songwriting flourished in classics like “Tears of Rage,” cowritten with Dylan, and “We Can Talk.” His keyboard work added a lovable funkiness to the Band’s sound, blending elements of rock, folk, country, and blues into what would become the genesis of Americana.

Despite the Band’s successes, Manuel struggled with personal demons, battling addiction and inner turmoil. Looking beyond his human frailty, this book celebrates Richard Manuel’s immeasurable contributions to music, ensuring that memories of his voice and artistry endure.

Stephen T. Lewis has been writing about rock and roll for over 20 years and is a self-proclaimed music geek. He operates talkfromtherockroom.com. He graduated from SUNY Brockport with a degree in English / creative writing. Stephen and his wife, Amiee, live in Rochester, New York.

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