Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northern United States and Canada

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Essential for informed travel.......2000-04-30

This beautiful and informative book (one of a series) is valuable for the armchair traveler as well as the actual tourist. History, photographs, simple and elegant maps, as well as interesting tidbits about people and places. For traveling with kids, it's invaluable. No threat of museumitis, here; lots of outdoors destinations to explore. The authors never preach, yet show convincingly that much is available - for family travel as well as adults - beyond multiplexes and outlet malls. They offer interesting and often "hidden" diversions and historically important places to visit: monuments, parks, houses, and more. It's produced lushly, to be enjoyed and admired - and it succeeds.

The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America the Mid-Atlantic States (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America)

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The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America the Mid-Atlantic States (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America)
Michael S. Durham
Manufacturer: Stewart Tabori & Chang
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ASIN: 1556700504

THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDE TO HISTORIC AMERICA : The Mid-Atlantic States (THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDES TO HISTORIC AMERICA, Volume 3)

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THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDE TO HISTORIC AMERICA : The Mid-Atlantic States (THE SMITHSONIAN GUIDES TO HISTORIC AMERICA, Volume 3)

Manufacturer: Easton Press
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Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000CPSV8Q

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"The 12 Volume set includes V 1 Virginia and the Capital Region (VA MD DE DC) + V 2 Southern New England (MA RI CT) + V 3 The Mid-Atlantic States (NY PA NJ) + V 4 Northern New England (ME NH VT) + V 5 The Deep South (GA FL AL MS LA) + V 6 The Great Lakes States (OH IN IL MI WI MN) + V 7 The Pacific States (CA OR WA + V 8 The Rocky Mountain States (MT ID WY CO) + V 9 The Carolinas and the Appalachian States (NC SC TN KY WV) + V 10 The Desert States (NM AZ UT NV) + V 11 Texas and the Arkansas River Valley (TX OK AK) + V 12 The Plains States (MO IA KS NE SD ND) with descriptive text and full color photographs of all significant historic sites"

The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America the Mid-Atlantic States

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The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America the Mid-Atlantic States
Michael S. Durham
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The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office
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An interesting and intimate view

A Fresh Look at our Thirty-Sixth President, Lyndon B. Johnson

Intimate insight on a fascinating character

Snapshots From The Great Society

The Thirty-first of March: An Intimate Portrait of Lyndon Johnson's Final Days in Office
Horace Busby
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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ASIN: 0374530211
Release Date: 2006-02-21

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"I have made up my mind. I can’t get peace in Vietnam and be President too.” So begins this posthumously discovered account of Lyndon Johnson’s final days in office. The Thirty-First of March is an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis, and spans twenty years of a close working and personal relationship between Johnson and Horace Busby.

It was Busby’s job to “put a little Churchill” into Johnson’s orations, and his skill earned him a position of trust on LBJ’s staff from the earliest days of his career as a congressman in Texas to the twilight of his presidency. From the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns that defined the Great Society, Busby not only articulated and refined Johnson’s political thinking, he helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda since FDR’s New Deal.

Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK riding in an open limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father, sickened by the men fighting and dying in Vietnam on his behalf. The Thirty-First of March is a rare glimpse into the inner sanctum of Johnson’s presidency.

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An interesting and intimate view.......2007-05-01

Horace Busby provides and intimate and interesting view of President Lyndon Johnson in THE 31ST OF MARCH. Although Busby provides selected views of other incidents that were key moments in the Johnson presidency and of course the story of how he became involved with Johnson the focus is on LBJ's decision not to seek re-election and the process of announcing that decision to the world.

Busby's view of LBJ is that of a much more fragile man than generally preceived of. It's a quick read. Busby's walks the reader through the family quarters of the White House and the inner workings of the presidency with facinating detail. One particulary interesting aspect of the story is how Johnson was treated at JFK's funeral. Most accounts are totally sympathetic to the Kennedy's but in reading Busby, you see that LBJ had a side too. The reader comes away with a very unique view LBJ.

Though brief, the work is very powerful. It is the story of friendship, loyality and devotion. I wish that the son, who edited the work would have provided a brief description of the relationship between Busby and LBJ after the White House years. It would rounded out the story.

A Fresh Look at our Thirty-Sixth President, Lyndon B. Johnson.......2006-09-22

"The Thirty-first of March", by Horace Busby takes a heart-warming yet candid look at Lyndon B. Johnson, as few had known him. The book makes for fast, interesting, and enjoyable reading.

Horace Busby was an assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1948 to 1968; those twenty years gave Busby the opportunity to know Lyndon B. Johnson as both a politician and a human being. Busby writes of a thoughtful, engaging, and at times ill-tempered congressional representative, senator, majority leader, vice president, and president of the United States. Readers will find that "The Thirty-first of March" offers a rare look at the human side of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon Johnson was the congressional representative for the Tenth District of Texas, described by Busby as the politician who swam against the political tides; who despised the Texas "sacred cow" (oil utilities), along with big business. Busby writes of Johnson's ability to balance his social insecurities with boundless energy and passion for the causes he so firmly believed in.

According to Busby, Johnson's passions may have been a result of Johnson's close association with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Johnson is described as a politician who wished to continue the work that was left incomplete by Roosevelt's "New Dealers". Many know the Lyndon B. Johnson who was arrogant, quick-tempered, reclusive, and a veteran of the political arena - he may have even been a conniver at times. However, many are unaware of Johnson's compassion for ordinary people - the downtrodden. Horace Busby brings this to center stage by giving readers a clear view of what most mattered to Lyndon B. Johnson, who believed that

"[p]eople are good . . . what the average folks want is very simple: peace, a roof over their heads, food on their tables, milk for their babies, a good job at good wages, a doctor when they need him, an education for their kids, a little something to live on when they're old, and a nice funeral when they die."

Busby writes of his own good fortune in making the acquaintance of such influential and powerful people as Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and their families. The book is sprinkled with short stories of these enduring encounters, which make for interesting reading. It is, however, the relationship between Busby and Johnson that the memoir brings to the forefront, which will most interest readers. Busby recollects how passionate Johnson was on domestic issues such as housing, education, healthcare, and conservation. Busby also describes Johnson's anguish and distress after receiving the news of Martin Luther King's assassination; not just for the country, but for the King family and all American people - African Americans as well as whites....

"The Thirty-first of March" was not meant to encompass Johnson's political career, but readers will gain a new understanding and respect for the ideas, accomplishments, and sacrifices of the political phenomena that was Lyndon B. Johnson. The book will also give readers and future biographers new insights into the persona that was LBJ.

Intimate insight on a fascinating character.......2006-01-22

Querying "Lyndon Johnson" on Amazon generates over 18,000 references. The man was a dominant figure in US politics for over 20 years, which goes some way to explaining why he has been written about so prolifically.
Few books though can surely be as intimate and interesting as Horace Busby's memoir of the man he worked with for most of Johnson's career on the national stage.

The twenty-four year-old Busby joined then Congressman Johnson's team in 1948, a few months prior to Johnson winning a Senate seat. His initial brief was to "put a little Churchill" and motivation into the Texas politician's speeches. He remained with Johnson, in some capacity as adviser, speechwriter, confidante and sometimes almost as therapist until March 31 1968 when Johnson made his famous utterance to the US people that "I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your President," - lines written by Horace Busby.

This is a wonderfully warm, penetrating look at the psychology, temperament and mindset of LBJ particularly in the days prior to his famous announcement. The manuscript was discovered by Busby's son after the author's death in 2000, hence the publication date of 2005. Unfortunately, much of the manuscript seems to have been lost as it does not deal at all with the President's period in the Senate, which by all accounts he bestrode like a colossus.

The reader can appreciate why Busby was so highly rated by his political patron. Much of the book contains wonderful writing and descriptive passages including a very humorous account of how the infamously impatient Congressman Johnson treated Busby when he first reported for work in 1948 - three days later than expected.

Busby crafts some wonderful images, not least when he recounts the terrible events of November 22nd, 1963. The author was in Washington when President Kennedy was assassinated in Johnson's home state of Texas. Co-incidentally, Busby's wife was in Johnson's Washington home doing some research for Lady Bird Johnson at the time of the shooting. She stayed in the house until Mrs. Johnson returned from Dallas - "she saw as no one else did that day, the cold passing of power," as the secret service took control of the house and presidential communications infrastructure was put in place, even before the residents returned from Dallas.

Busby appears to have been a true confidant of the towering Texan. Few (if any) who worked under Johnson would claim he was an easy person to deal with. He could be mean, nasty, uncouth, self-centered, insecure and tyrannical, yet he had very strong motivational skills, sometimes conveyed with great good humor. Johnson was blessed to have a number of very loyal and competent aides - Jack Valenti, Joe Califano and of course Busby who writes of Johnson almost as a son might of a father.
Because of his close relationship with LBJ, Busby writes compellingly on a number of little known episodes about the President including a dirty tricks campaign initiated by White House insiders to prevent Vice-President Johnson from gaining the nomination to run with Jack Kennedy for the presumptive 1964 campaign. LBJ believed he had but one friend "in that place - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy himself."

The account of the 31st March, when Busby was called to the White House to draft Johnson's final words is both riveting and compelling. Many of Johnson's family and aides did not wish the President to remove himself from the race and blamed Busby for influencing his decision.

The initiative to withdraw though was Johnson's, but when Busby handed him four pages of script - much more than expected, the President `threw up his hands. "Damn" he exclaimed. "You must really want to get me out of town." `

Johnson on a one-to-one level was surprisingly humorous with strong motivational skills, something that rarely came across in his public appearances. Unlike his predecessor, JFK, Johnson never mastered the new media of television.

For those interested in one of the most intriguing characters to attain the presidency, this book is a little jewel. The one regret is that it covers such a short period of the political life of a man whom the author writes was "extroverted, gregarious, and roughshod," but who "sheltered a sensitive, introspective, and unaccountably fragile self inside."

Snapshots From The Great Society.......2005-09-29

Horace Busby was one of the more interesting witnesses in Robert Caro's biography of LBJ, and I was sorry to hear he had passed on a few years back, here in California. Busby knew where all the bodies were buried in his capacity as top speechwriter for Johnson, extremely close to the man for twenty years or more, and inventor of the catchphrase, "The Great Society."

The book, while never less than elegantly written, is scattershot in its approach, and jumps back and forth in chronology like a human pinball machine, skimming the surfaces here and there, then coming down to dwell lovingly and cinematically on some unlikely venues, such as a trip with Johnson in November of 1963, to Brussels for a conference. LBJ in Brussels, of all places, it's unreal! Here Busby really goes to town, exploring the insecurities that fueled Johnson's drive to the top and which made him the most feared man in politics.

And yet he had his charming side too, and Buzz was there for large chunks of it. There's a long, fleshed out memoir of arriving with Johnson at Hyannisport in 1960, not knowing whether or not Kennedy would want him as his candidate for Vice President. There's no denying that Johnson was the odd man out among the Kennedys; in one hilarious moment he can't understand JFK's accent, despite trying to read his lips. You won't get this kind of intimate, novelistic detail anywhere else.

But often "Buzz" seems overdiscreet, drawing a veil over the very things that the reader wants to know more about. Buzz's son Scott, who introduces this posthumously published memoir, suggests that Buzz came to feel he had given all his "good Lyndon stories" to Caro in their many interviews, and that the book we now have represents perhaps the not-so-good stories which Caro didn't find interesting enough to include in any of the three volumes published so far. And sometimes Buzz's speechwriting strength betray him as a memoirist; his highly praised alliteration for example, grows inane when it is employed to open a paragraph with "The prolonged procrastination was highly provocative . . . "

What else is memorable about this all too brief book? Well, I liked finding out more about Johnson's religious background as a "Digressive." I never even heard to term before, and now it seems utterly key to understanding the man. Buzz' dad, a strict preacher type, hesitated before giving his boy his blessing to work for LBJ, fearing that the latter's "Digressive" qualities would corrupt Buzz. Johnson's own father emerges as a salty old son of a gun, telling his son not to forget that "If a fella starts trying to climb a pole, he usually ends up showing his ass." It was a lesson Johnson was never to forget.

In one touching chapter Busby, together with Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, travel to Gettysburg to represent the administration at the Eisenhower farm, as Ike and Mamie prepare to leave their home forever (they have deeded it to the National Park Service). Both Eisenhowers come to life vividly, and their lives together for forty-five years touchingly adumbrated, in Busby's careful rendering of a moment in time.

Busby provides lovely word portraits both of fragile, thoughtful Jackie Kennedy and the amazing Lady Bird. Either of these would make the book worth reading all by themselves, but yet there is a whole lot more in THE THIRTY-FIRST OF MARCH. Don't let this one slip under your radar.

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This book contains a brief account of the revolt in Balochistân, an episode merely of the great political drama enacted west of the Indus, but deserving attention as the precursor of the catastrophe subsequently developed at Kâbal. The volume concludes with a memoir on Eastern Balochistân, covering geography, tribes, government and history, antiquities and dialects, military force, revenue, trade, agriculture, manners, customs and natural history and mineralogy.

Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)

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Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)
Charles Masson
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Binding: Hardcover

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Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab. 3 Volumes.

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Charles Masson
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ASIN: B000H0SRC6

Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: Including a residence in those countries from 1826 to 1838

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Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: Including a residence in those countries from 1826 to 1838
Charles Masson
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Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: Volume IV: Kalat (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)

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Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, and the Panjab: Volume IV: Kalat (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints)
Charles Masson , and H. T. Lambrick
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ASIN: 0195772466

Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab, & KalaÌÂ‚t, during a residence in those countries: To which is added an account of ... Kalat, and a memoir on Eastern Balochistan

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Narrative of various journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, the Panjab, & KalaÌÂ‚t, during a residence in those countries: To which is added an account of ... Kalat, and a memoir on Eastern Balochistan
Charles Masson
Manufacturer: Richard Bentley
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0008AUJM6

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China, glass, jewelry, books and more .......2005-05-13

The price tag is expensive for a 120-page paperback and so will limit this reference to only the most avid collector - but that collector will find Masonic Memorabilia to be most invaluable and unique, justifying its price with the author's 40 year background in antiques and specialty insider's knowledge of Freemason collectibles. Most items of china, glass, jewelry, books and more are from Jackman's collection: George Perrott edits the survey and Masonic Memorabilia also includes an invaluable price guide for would-be collectors, plus plenty of color photos. Invaluable.

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Explanation of anatomy, life cycle, and food requirements.

15 plans for gorgeous gardens that double as friendly habitats.

Gallery of plants, including regional recommendations.

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Hoping for hummers!.......2007-01-05

This is a great book. It's choc-a-bloc full of information. If you want to attract butterflies and hummingbirds then it really has a lot of ideas on how to do it. I can't wait to put the ideas into action in the Spring!

It's OK........2006-12-16

This is an ok book for someone wanting to learn the basics about attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. The information is all there, but the packaging isn't all glitter and glamour. Here's a functional source of information, not a coffee table book. The pictures are good, but not striking or enrapturing.

Beauty is more than petal-deep........2001-08-01

As the authors of this book point out, butterflies and hummingbirds add beauty to the garden. In my opinion, a garden made to sustain these interesting creatures is more than just pretty - it gives something back to nature. This guide describes how to attract butterflies and hummingbirds and provide essentials to keep them around. It offers many practical tips as well as background information on the species. The guide includes charts of plants which will attract and sustain hummers and butterflies throughout their lifespans, suggested garden designs, and an encyclopedia of hummingbird and butterfly species. It does not include a color photographs of each plant, but those can easily be found elsewhere. If you would like to devote a whole garden to hummers or butterflies, or just incorporate a few plants to attract them, this book is a good starting place and reference.

Ortho's All About Attracting Birds (Ortho's All About Gardening)

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Backyard birding beginner

Ortho's All About Attracting Birds (Ortho's All About Gardening)
Ortho
Manufacturer: Ortho
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ASIN: 0897214552
Release Date: 2001-01-01

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How to create and maintain an environment that attracts, shelters, and nourishes birds.

Profiles 75 popular birds.

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Backyard birding beginner.......2002-04-28

My husband and I just recently became interested in the beautiful birds in our backyard. We purchased this book and we find it is very helpful in identifying our visitors. Although it isn't packed with detail on each bird, the information provided is very useful. It also tells you how to build birdhouses for specific species of birds. We recommend this book to anyone who is beginning to bird watch. We also like that the pictures of each bird are actual photos and not drawings. It made a big difference in identifying some of our birds.

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The play of light and shade can make outdoor painting projects more daunting than interior ones, so world-renowned decorative painting expert Annie Sloan begins this book with a lesson in understanding and managing color. Sloan shows do-it-yourselfers how to create a cozy dinner nook, accent open spaces with converted salvage, and paint an old plastic pot to resemble an elegant metallic planter. Full-color photographs accompany each stage of the process, with step-by-step instructions that encourage readers to use every imaginable material - paint, pebbles, sand, plastics, ceramics, glass, cement, mirrors, and tiles - to give grace to a garden or panache to a patio. Sloan's enthusiasm is so contagious that any outdoor surface will look like a blank canvas crying for color.

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Outdoor Paint Effects
Susan Cohen
Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Hardcover

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-Demonstrates a wide range of techniques for creating effects, such as imitating stones and stamping.

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Outdoor Paint Effects
Susan Cohen
Manufacturer: Creative Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPDXV4

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The Life of La Signoret.......2006-10-12

In an article entitled "In Praise of Older Women," "Time" magazine once remarked that Simone Signoret was "everywoman's Bogart, in a trenchcoat, dangling a cigarette, in "Room At The Top." Should you find yourself saying some modern equivalent of "Right on, sister,"at this, you might want to find this autobiography.

Signoret (born, Wiesbaden, Germany, March 25,1921; died, High Jura, France, September 30,1985 ) might seem typically French middle-class at first glance. In fact,she was raised in Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, in an intellectual atmosphere. She studied English in school, took a teachers degree, and tutored in English and Latin. She spoke English, German, and French. But her father, an officer in the French army and a linguist who later worked at the United Nations, was descended from Polish Jews. He barely made it out of France ahead of the German Occupation of World War II: he fled to England, where he served with French General Charles de Gaulle. This left Signoret, as a young woman, to shoulder the burden of supporting her mother and two younger brothers. She first went to work at a collaborationist newspaper, "Le Nouveau Temps," so collaborationist that her boss Jean Luchaire, faced a firing squad at war's end.

However, she herself discovered the Cafe Flore, home of France's intelligentsia these many years, and decided she wanted to act. Through the Occupation of France, she continued, by working constantly in the film industry, always as an extra or perhaps with just one line,to support mother and brothers. She lacked proper papers, owing to her father; used her mother's maiden name, Signoret, rather than her father's name, Kaminker; and had to keep a low low profile.

But all wars eventually end, even World War II, and her career began to build. Along the way to "Casque d'or, " her first major French picture, she loved, lived with, had a girl Catherine by, and eventually married French film director Yves Allegret. Then in a dramatic, wrenching emotional upheaval, she met French cabaret star Yves Montand. They eventually married, and she even managed to talk him into making a few movies, such as "Wages of Fear," "Z", and "State of Siege."

The couple were outspoken left-wingers, and though Hollywood began to flirt in the 1950's, they couldn't get visas to enter this country. Mind you, they had minds of their own. Previous commitments required them to tour the Soviet Union shortly after its brutal repression of the Polish Uprising of 1956. One evening the Politburo came to late supper, and the pair told then-leader Nikita Khrushchev just what they thought of his methods.

At any rate, in 1959, at age 38, Signoret became an international star with the English-made "Room at the Top." She and her husband were finally able to get visas into the States: she was able to be in Los Angeles in 1960 to collect her Best Leading Actress Oscar for "Room." She was the first woman to win the Best Actress award in a non-American made film. The couple decided to stay on while Montand made "Let's Make Love" with Marilyn Monroe.

Signoret discusses the period when she and Montand lived above Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband Arthur Miller, in Bungalows 20 and 21 of the Beverly Hills Hotel, as "Let's Make Love" was made. There was nearly worldwide gossip about a Monroe-Montand affair, and later Monroe did tell her dresser Lena Pepitone, that after Signoret and Miller left town for other commitments, they did. Signoret, however, never believed it. She wrote of Monroe, "She's gone, without ever knowing that I never stopped wearing the champagne colored silk scarf she'd lent me one day....It's a bit frayed now, but if I fold it carefully, the fray doesn't show."

The author is biting in her treatment of Lillian Hellman, who confided in her book "Pentimento" that she hated Signoret's "Regina" in the French stage production of Hellman's play "The Little Foxes." She's moving in her discussion of a handsome young Greek, holding a carnation in a famous picture. He was a left-winger, and was clandestinely murdered, in the beams of a Dodge truck, by the neo-fascist right in 1953. He and his carnation were reborn in Montand's "Z."

And the woman's wonderful on her decision to age, " like everybody else, and quietly accept the idea that 45 puts you on the road to 46 rather than to 44.... It's very easy to go on functioning at the same rhythm as your contemporaries, to mature with them, and to age with them. And it's miraculous when life brings you parts that seem to grow better each year, stronger, laden with the memories and personal experiences that have put those lines on your face. They are the scars of the laughter, the tears, the questions, the astonishments and the certainties that are also those of your contemporaries. I chose not to go /to the plastic surgeons/. I didn't go because I've never been a star." Now there, Mme Montand, you fibbed a bit.

The actress was also well-known for her films "Les Diaboliques," and "Ship of Fools," in which she co-starred with Vivien Leigh. She is buried in Paris's famed Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery. A French postage stamp was issued in her honor on October 3, 1998. The late great American jazz singer Nina Simone always told interviewers she'd taken her name from Signoret's. Signoret, you see, had a lot going for her, in addition to that dangling cigarette.

Simone's Nostalgia.......2000-03-16

It rarely happens that a great movie actress also manages to be a great writer. Signoret tells her life story in a lively, literary prose. She makes no excuses for the mistakes she made. She is a master in evoking the atmosphere of a meeting, a conversation or a movie set. Her description of the people she meets on her travels are rivetting.

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Adieu, Volodya
Simone Signoret
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394549279
Release Date: 1986-07-12

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Le lendemain elle était souriante--
Simone Signoret
Manufacturer: Seuil
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 2020057506

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Adieu Volodia
Simone Signoret
Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Adios, Volodia/Adieu, Volodya
Simone Signoret
Manufacturer: Seix Barral
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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La Nostalgia Ya No Es Lo Que Era
Simone Signoret
Manufacturer: Argos Vergara
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ASIN: B000WBK00W

La Nostalgie N'est Plus Ce Qu'elle Etait

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La Nostalgie N'est Plus Ce Qu'elle Etait
Simone Signoret
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LA NOSTALGIE N'EST PLUS CE QU'ELLE ETAIT ; AVANT-PROPOS DE MAURICE PONS

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