The Penguin book of interviews : an anthology from 1859 to the present day

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The Penguin book of interviews : an anthology from 1859 to the present day

edited with an introduction by Christopher Silvester

Penguin Books, 1994, c1993

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First published: Viking , 1993

Includes bibliographical references ([627]-632)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Designed to be a browser's book, this collection of newspaper interviews gives insights into how important figures were viewed by their contemporaries, and comprises the best examples of the genre from 1859 to the present day.

Table of Contents

  • Brigham Young
  • Karl Marx
  • "Chinese Gordon"
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Henry Stanley
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Mark Twain
  • Thomas Edison
  • Lillie Langtry
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan
  • Prince Bismarck
  • General William Booth
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • William Howard Russell
  • Samuel Smiles
  • Emile Zola
  • Henri Rochefort
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Paul Kruger
  • "Are lnterviewers a Blessing or a Curse?"
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • Cecil Rhodes
  • Two Moon
  • Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • W. T. Stead
  • Christabel Pankhurst
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Guglielmo Marconi
  • G. K. Chesterton
  • Barrie at Bay: "Which Was Brown?"
  • Frank Harris
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Stanley Baldwin
  • William Howard Taft
  • Sir Edwin Lutyens
  • Willa Cather
  • Georges Clemenceau
  • Greta Garbo
  • Sigmund Freud
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Wyndham Lewis
  • al Capone
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Tallulah Bankhead
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Huey P. Long
  • Gertrude Stein
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • David Lloyd George
  • Stefan Zweig
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • "The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed"
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Brendan Behan
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Alfred Hitchkock
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Montgomery Clift
  • John F, Kennedy
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Norman Mailer
  • Alf Landon
  • Harold Macmillan
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • Sammy Davis Jr
  • Margaret Bourke-White
  • Mao Tse-tung
  • Anthony Wedgewood-Benn
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Joe Orton
  • Lester Piggott
  • John Lennon
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Arthur Miller
  • Bette Davis
  • Jimmy Hoffa
  • William Burroughs
  • Mae West
  • Galina Vishnevskaya
  • Paul Johnson.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA24701455
  • ISBN
    • 0140154086
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 632 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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