Les Standiford talked about his book, Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu , in which he recounted the creation of the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, by cereal company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, E.F.
656 viewsLes Standiford talked about his book The Man Who Invented Christmas, in which he recalls Charles Dickens' writing of A Christmas Carol.
1,601 viewsGuests included Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books and Books, and authors Les Standiford and Ana Menendez.
1,220 viewsLes Standiford talked about his book Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America, published by Crown. ... Standiford* also detailed the Homestead steel strike of 1892.
2,316 viewsSteven Hackel, Junipero Serra: California's Founding Father; Les Standiford, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles; and Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, talked about California History.
585 viewsAuthor Les Standiford talked about his book, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War , in which he explores the role of the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution.
534 viewsLes Standiford talked about his book Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army (Crown, May 6, 2008). ... Standiford talked about his career and how he came to write the book. ... BookTV and Les Standiford visited three Washington, D.C., locations on May 13, 2008: Pierre Charles L'Enfant's Arlington Cemetery tomb overlooking the city, the Society of the Cincinnati library, and the statue at Washington Circle that was the original design for the Washington Monument. ... Standiford talked about the changing appreciation of L'Enfant and of the city of Washington.
368 viewsEdmund White Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel), Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits), Nancy Milford (a forthcoming biography of Rose Kennedy) and Stacy Schiff (a forthcoming biography on Cleopatra) participated in a panel discussion was held on the art of biography.
344 viewsLes Standiford talked about his most recent book, "Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean", published by Crown Publishing.
197 viewsAuthor Les Standiford talked about his book Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Building of the Railroad that Crossed the Ocean, published by Crown. ... Standiford*, the building of the Key West extension was an engineering marvel but it was also a grandiose scheme with a human cost that faced an even bigger challenge when a devastating hurricane came to town.
225 viewsAuthors, Dave Barry and Scott Turow, spoke at the Miami Book Fair. They talked about their books, “Tricky…
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