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|  | Alice Tully by Albert Fuller
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center is one of the most famous performing spaces in New York City, and the woman behind it was one of the city`s most private philanthropists. This intimate memoir is an engaging encounter with a gracious and influential supporter of the arts. Albert Fuller`s dose friendship with Miss Tully over a period of more than thirty years allows him unique insight into her eventful life and colorful personality. The daughter of a Corning heiress and a state senator, Miss Tully trained as a singer in Europe before turning her love of music toward enlightened philanthropy. Chair of the board of directors for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for nearly twenty-five years, she also served on the boards of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and The Juilliard School, and as a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Museum of Modern Art. For her cultural contributions, New York City awarded her the Handel Medallion, and France conferred on her the three steps of the National Order of Merit as well as the prestigious Legion of Honor. A charming woman whose activities influenced the musical tastes of New York City and the nation, Alice Tully reveals herself here for the first time. Through this privileged portrait we discover an individual whose public generosity was matched by private courage, a quick intelligence, unfailing social grace, and a fierce and fearless love for life. AUTHOR: Albert Fuller
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | I Send You This Cadmium Red by John Berger, John Christie
Writer/painter John Berger and his friend artist/film maker John Christie exchanged letters for several years on the subject of color. The letters include drawings, photographs, and handcrafted books--all reproduced here--as well as provocative discussions on Van Gogh's yellow and the blue of the ocean. AUTHOR: John Berger, John Christie
PUBLISHER: Actar
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Dressing Station by Jonathan Kaplan
From Africa, to the Middle East, to the South China Sea, Dr. Jonathan Kaplan describes the technical and emotional rigors of being a front-line surgeon. AUTHOR: Jonathan Kaplan
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Barn at the End of the World by Mary Rose O'Reilley
Transcendence can come in many forms. Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O`Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O`Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn ad her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France, where she studied with Thich N`hat Hanh. She seeks, in both barn and monastery, a spirituality based not in `climbing out of the body` but rather in existing fully in the world. AUTHOR: Mary Rose O'Reilley
PUBLISHER: Milkweed Editions
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Perpetuating Power by Jorge Castaneda, Padraic Arthur Smithies
Description not available.An account of the machinery of Mexican presidential politics from the 1920s to the surprise election of the opposition candidate Vincente Fox in July 2000. AUTHOR: Jorge Castaneda, Padraic Arthur Smithies
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Martin Scorsese by Andy Dougan, Mary P. Kelly, Michael Powell, Steven Spielberg
Controversy and acclaim mark Martin Scorsese's career from his earlier iconoclastic New York films like Mean Streets and Raging Bull to the more recent The Last Temptation of Christ, GoodFellas and Cape Fear. In Martin Scorsese: A Journey, Mary Pat Kelley, writer and prize-winning filmmaker, traces Scorsese's life and work through interviews with Scorsese as well as more than twenty major motion picture figures, providing a rare look at the process and inspiration behind the films of America's premier director. Martin Scorsese: A Journey includes exclusive interviews with Robert De Niro, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, Paul Newman, Liza Minelli, Joe Pesci, Nick Nolte, Sandra Bernhard, and Rosanna Arquette; and includes a new Foreword by Andy Dougan, author of Untouchable: A Biography of Robert De Niro. AUTHOR: Andy Dougan, Mary P. Kelly, Michael Powell, Steven Spielberg
PUBLISHER: Avalon Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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