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Amanda Vaill is the author of the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy-A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Somewhere was made into a documentary that won both and Emmy and a Peabody award. She has also written features and criticism for a range of journals from Allure to Washington Post Book World. She lives in New York City.
A highly original and beautifully written account of the intrepid - and sometimes crazy - journalists who risked everything to report on the Spanish Civil War. Amanda Vaill has produced a work that is by turns gripping and heartbreaking, and utterly compelling Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire Fascinating ... A valiant job of pulling together so many disparate stories into a fascinating contemporaneous narrative, of why people believed things when they did. Inevitably Hemingway has all the best lines ... Vaill does a good job of showing how this mixture of ambition and conviction drives her characters onwards ... A timely reminder that there is nothing more important than telling the truth Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Vividly written and impeccably researched, Hotel Florida animates a fascinating cast of historical figures, speaking urgently to questions of truth and betrayal that are still compelling today. What a story! Mary Dearborn, author of biographies of Norman Mailer, Peggy Guggenheim and a forthcoming life of Ernest Hemingway Vaill weaves through the artists' tangled lives as they capture this historic moment Vogue
Why Democracy Failed
The Agrarian Origins of the Spanish...
Paperback
$47.95
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I Saw Democracy Murdered
The Memoir of Sam Russell, Journalist...
Hardback
$305
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