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The lost life of Eva Braun / by Lambert, Angela.(CARDINAL)744332;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 470-475) and index.Never such innocence again -- The first strange and fatal interview -- Eva's family -- Eva, Goethe, Schubert and Bambi -- Tedious lessons and rebellious games -- Hitler's childhood -- Adolf to Fuhrer, schoolgirl to mistress -- Eva become Fraulein Braun, Hitler becomes Fuhrer -- Bavaria, the German idyll -- Geli and Hitler and Eva -- Dying to be with Hitler -- Diary of a desperate woman -- The photograph albums and home movies -- Mistress-in-waiting -- Eva leaves home -- Mistress -- Germany on display: the olympics -- The best years: idling at the Berghof -- The women on the Berg -- Three, three, the rivals -- 1937-9 - Eva at the Berghof: 'A golden cage' -- 1938-9 - The last summers of peace -- The war years -- 1939 - war approaches -- Waiting for Hitler to win the war -- Eva, Gretl and Fegelein -- 1941-3 - What could Eva have known? -- What could Eva have done? -- What Hitler did -- Culmination -- February 1944-January 1945 - Eva at the Berghof with Gertraud -- The Stauffenberg plot and its consequences -- In the bunker -- Hitler's last stand -- Frau Hitler for thirty-six hours.Eva Braun is one of history's most famous nonentities. She has been dismissed as a racist, feather-headed shop girl, and yet six decades after her death her name is still instantly recognizable. She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. She became his mistress before she was twenty. How did unsophisticated little Fraulein Braun, 23 years his junior, hold the most powerful man in Europe in an exclusive relationship that lasted from 1932 until their joint suicide? Were they really lovers, and what were the background influences and psychological tensions of the middle-class Catholic girl from Munich who shared his intimate life? How can her ordinariness and apparent decency be reconciled with an unshakeable loyalty to the monster she loved?--From publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Braun, Eva.; Spouses of heads of state;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 12
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Madame Mao : the white boned demon / by Terrill, Ross.(CARDINAL)156719; Terrill, Ross.White boned demon.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Prologue: "I Was Mao's Dog" -- 2. Growing Up, Reaching Out (1914-33) -- 3. Onstage in Shanghai (1933-37) -- 4. Mao's Housewife in Yanan (1938-49) 5. Letdown (1950's) -- 6. Recovery and Revenge: Politics as Theater (1960's) -- 7. Bid to Be Empress (1970's) -- 8. "Shut Up, Jiang Qing."This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao's death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991.
Subjects: Biographies.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991.; Spouses of heads of state; Stateswomen;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Becoming Madame Mao / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Includes bibliographical references (page 340).
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991; Married women; Spouses of heads of state; Spouses of heads of state; Statesmen; Stateswomen;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Raisa, the 1st first lady of the Soviet Union / by Jürgens, Urda.;
Subjects: Biographies.; Gorbacheva, Raisa Maksimovna, 1932-1999.; Spouses of heads of state;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Becoming Madame Mao / by Min, Anchee,1957-(CARDINAL)683406;
Includes bibliographical references (page 340).From the Publisher: In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century. Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon"--Ambitious, vindictive, and cruel-whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Min's story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother's pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl. She later fled the miseries of her family life, first to a provincial opera troupe, then to Shanghai and fame as an actress, and finally to the arid, mountainous regions of Yenan, where she fell in love with and married Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Min uses the facts of history and her lush, penetrating psychological imagination to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly, and whose ambition was matched only by her ferocious, never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. A daring narrative with all the compressed drama and high lyrical poetry of great opera, BECOMING MADAME MAO is the most ambitious and provocative work of Anchee Min's career.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991; Spouses of heads of state; Married women; Statesmen;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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La suerte de la consorte : las esposas de los gobernantes de México : historia de un olvido y relato de un fracaso / by Sefchovich, Sara.(CARDINAL)733945;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-539) and index.La suerte de la consorte es un libro pionero que rasga el silencio que envuelve a las esposas de los gobernantes de México, les presta voz y las devuelve a la vida de la historia.System requirements: PC running Microsoft Windows 95 or newer with 486 processor or better ; 66 Mhz or faster ; 16 Mb RAM ; 2x CD ROM drive minimum with Soundblaster compatable sound card.
Subjects: Biographies.; Spouses of heads of state; Heads of state; Spanish language materials.; Jefes de estado;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dictator's wife / by Berry, Freya,1991-author.;
WOMAN: I learned early in life how to survive. A skill that became vital in my position. WIFE: I was given no power, yet I was expected to hold my own with the most powerful man in the country. MOTHER OF THE NATION: My people were my children. I stood between him and them. I am not the person they say I am. I am not my husband. I am innocent. Do you believe me?
Subjects: Political fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Spouses of heads of state; Trials (Political crimes and offenses); Women lawyers; Dictators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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An unexpected guest / by Korkeakivi, Anne.(CARDINAL)389604;
While planning a dinner party in Paris, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat becomes unnerved by the unexpected arrival of her son, a random encounter with a Turkish terrorist, and the recurring appearance of someone dead for twenty years.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Thrillers (Fiction); Americans; Heads of state; Husband and wife; Mothers and sons; Parties; Redemption; Secrecy; Spouses of heads of state; Terrorists; Wives;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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An enduring love / by Farah,Empress, consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran,1938-(CARDINAL)709632;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Farah, Empress, consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1938-; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1919-1980.; Empresses; Spouses of heads of state;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Comrade Chiang Chʻing : Roxane Witke. by Witke, Roxane.(CARDINAL)218554;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Jiang, Jing.; Jiang, Qing, 1914-1991.; Women; Statesmen; Stateswomen; Spouses of heads of state; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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