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Great book about a great Actor
This is such a wonderful book about such a great character, Oliver Reed was and always will be larger than life. We learn about about his problems with dyslexia and early conquests with the girls, one of his earliest beingSamantha Eggar and her Knickers. we learn of his great love of animals andhow he bought with his first pay packet from the movies 2 dogs from TheBattersea Dogs home. I love to tell people how he wanted a field for hishorse and ended up with a Mansion attached to it. A great book from a greatMan and as a previous reviewer stated never lend it to anyone or you willhave to fight to recover it. If you love or like Oliver Reed please readthis book it will give you great insight into such a wonderful man and agreat Actor.

Excellent book on a man so far removed from his image
When I read the book back in 1980, I thought it tremendously entertaining and somewhat suprising.

I have always been a fan of Ollie's since I was around 12 years old.He first captured my attention in the film, "TheWerewolf"."Incredible!" I thought.What a good lookingman; what an actor!

Then I read about him in newspapers and saw him ontelevision, and thought "What a character!".

When I read hisautobiography, which I bought back in 1980, the man was so far removed fromhis image portrayed in the media.His 'skill' in getting publicity; notonly for himself, but for the film, was as he once put it "even badpublicity is good publicity!" and it obviously worked for the filmpromoters as well as himself!.

The book is an excellent insight into asensitive man, who loved his family; was a caring person: nothing like thepublic image he 'created',but, above all,a man who loved life.

Anexcellent 'Reed' for any Reed fan.

I 'loaned' this book to a 'friend' andnever got it back!!! ... Read more

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Wonderfully Entertaining !
I've been a Russell Crowe fan since 2000 and when I read just a few of the stories of debauchery in this book I thought, 'These guys make Russell look like a choir boy ! '
Also mentioned in the book was a comment that Elizabeth Taylor could drink them all under the table !...Oh my....

I do have to wonder had there been the internet and the instant media coverage during their heyday like we have now.... would these 4 have been more INfamous than famous ?
Would their acting careers have been adversely affected after they got raked over the coals with every bad behavior exposed like celebrities are subjected to today ?
Who knows.
At any rate, this is a highly entertaining book and I recommend it for some fun reading.

One Hell Of A Last Word
This book essentially chronicles the lives of four celebrated anglo actors with the main focus on their addictive and destructive behavior fueled by drink and drugs.
The best aspect of this book was the biographical information that was provided about these actors because it provided a wealth of personal information. Obviously, drunken carousing was a certain component in those lives. Conversely, it was the emphasis on the excesses that I found interesting, but also a tad depressing. The drunken bingeing and general misbehavior which was the common thread in all of their lives seemed like overload times four. It left me wondering how they managed to function as they fried their brain cells with the addictive behavior.
End shot: this was an interesting book and it did what it promised and chronicled the lives of four legendary hellraising actors but it fell short because the primary focus was on their bad behavior.

Don't try this at home
Here's a collection that lets us vicariously enjoy the most outrageous and salacious adventures of the best party animal actors that ever lived? Personally, I don't think my own constitution could have matched or survived any one of these incidents or activities of mass alcohol consumption, barroom destruction, or insatiable sexual conquest. But there were some memoroable times that I tried ... God knows I tried.

Sloshed again, eh?
Almost immediately at the start of the book, author Sellers announces that his purpose here is not to cast judgment on or make excuses for the alcohol-fueled antics of his subjects. These four great actors lived and loved in a very different climate from the one that currently permeates Hollywood and the rest of society. Some people revered them for their commitment to "taking the piss," as the Brits call it, and some people claimed that the drink took amazing skills and subjected them to poor career choices.Like the author, I'm not going to cast judgment either.Were these four men (and the others glancingly mentioned) alcoholics?I'd say yes.But they were also brilliant, original, inspirational men.Three of the four were actors I still rever and wish I were a quarter as talented as.Burton and Harris -- I wanted to BE them when I was younger. O'Toole -- okay, I'll admit, I had a hard time watching Lawrence of Arabia as a kid, but I still looked up to him.Reed, I was scared of.Of course, the roles I was most familiar with Reed from was as The Wolfman in a Hammer Horror film I saw when I was very young, and as the evil Bill Sykes in "Oliver!"Of the four, he was the seriously dark and brooding one (by looks, at least) and I didn't follow him as closely.

The author's chosen format, dividing the book up into decades, keeps the book interesting and keeps the stories flowing. And while the focus is on the titular four hellraisers there are plenty of asides about actors like Robert Mitchum, Lee Marvin, Michael Caine and others. And of course, one cannot talk about Burton's career (and drinking) without talking about Elizabeth Taylor (who fueled the drinking, if not the best of Burton's performances).

The stories are by turns hysterical and heart-breaking, especially when Sellers recounts the last days of Burton, Reed and Harris. O'Toole, of course, is the "last man standing," as the final chapter is titled. I admit to crying when I read about Harris' final moments with his family, and I smiled a bit reading of Reed's death while filming Gladiator, because it seems he died doing exactly what he wanted to do.
Definitely a book worth reading, a glimpse at a different era of celebrity.Theirs is a mantle actors like Russell Crowe have tried (but not completely successfully) to inherit.

Affectionate, entertaining tribute
Unlike the reviewer who thought that HELLRAISERS was a mean-spirited hatchet job, I found this book to be admiring, and affectionate toward its subjects, than otherwise.

The author makes no attempt at psychological analysis of these four actors - as to why they drank to excess and/or behaved so self-destructively at times - and frankly, I found that absolutely refreshing.The book just pulls the reader in with story after story of the outrageous exploits of these four men.I couldn't put it down.It also brought back all kinds of memories since I grew up reading about the wild marriage(s) of Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor; the bar room brawls of Oliver Reed {so wonderful as Athos in The Three Musketeers}, and the consistent comebacks of Peter O'Toole.(Just when you think he's finished as an actor, the man pulls another Oscar nomination.)

HELLRAISERS was simply fun to read.Light biographical sketches are provided, and the ups and downs of the actors' careers are charted, but really the focus here is on story after infamous story of the drinking; the brawls, and the newsprint spilled about them.

If, as a reader, you prefer to look at the whys and wherefore's of the choices these men made, or find it sad to think about the wasted talents of these actors, lost to alcoholism, then don't read HELLRAISERS - but, I think you'll be cheating yourself.(I agree that in many ways, it's sad these men didn't realize what they were doing to themselves, yet, each man LIVED the way he wanted to, and for the most part, enjoyed their lives, even if they couldn't remember much of it later.)

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Unless you ARE Oliver Reed, you don't care this much about Oliver Reed
Were this book 150 pages in length, then maybe.But it's not.After about a third of the book, I decided I didn't care that much about this guy's life, and the author didn't change my mind about that.

Well written and reseached book on a very confusing guy
Well written, researched and fair coverage of a talented actor who, in his private life (and sometimes his professional life) was a drunk, a lunatic, a dangerous practical joker, irresponsible, inappropriate, unpredictable, out of control, sometimes self destructive and very confusing. And I mean confusing! - by the end of the book I could not get a handle on this guy or what made him tick except that maybe he was easily bored, and very silly - not witty - perilously silly and way too damn big for his own good or anyone else's for that matter.I was not sure whether any of the crazy things that Reed did were because he was deliberately aping Keith Moon, or putting us on or due to some sort of twisted personality disorder. Did Reed even know?In any case - from reading about his antics - he must have been a hell of allot of fun to watch after a few drinks - but only from a distance.

The book is a fun read simply to get to the next of Oliver's nutty activities. Just bear in mind that you will come away with no insite into why this guy was so incredibly crazy and wreckless and there is next to nothing to learn about acting. But who cares about that.

If for nothing else - the book serves as good lesson on how not to behave, get yourself black listed, ruin your career, a marriage, a fewfriendships or anything else you want to ruin.

On a side note Ollie's wife Josephine was a doll - when she became part of the story - it became kind of romantic - sniff - I guess it was because her patience and support for Ollie in spite of his antics is every guys dream. Wish there were more of her.

interesting lives
havent read all of the book but - it gives a good inside into his life

Workmanlike Bio
For any avid Oliver Reed fan, this book doesn't contain anything new. However, for the cinema fan who admired Ollie's filmwork, it's a good intro to his life. When Ollie died, I was surprised to see that those of us in the American film industry viewed him more as a god of cinema, whereas the Brits viewed him as a god of debauchery. Since this book was written for the British audience, it focuses more on Reed's flamboyant side, but then Ollie was a one-of-a-kind rogue. Compared to the hypocritical stars of today, Ollie stands out as a true individual with a set standard of living. A great man, but the true story is still being written.

Outta here
Although the writing and story in general did not flow particularly well and it seemed to be a bit jerky with respect to the sequence of events, just reading about the sheer audacity, madness, debauchery, depravity, and wickedness of Oliver Reed's life makes for an adventure well worth [the money].The book in itself is not, nor will it ever be recognized as a literary pinnacle, however as a means to record several snap shots in the life of Oliver Reed, it is truly remarkable as simply a documentary writ of a life which was full of excess. This is the story of which legends are made, however despicable the behavior, and regardless of how one apply there respective terms of morals, no one remembers mediocrity or exemplary behavior.However, one seldom forgets tossing a chair through the pub window, or helping your friend off the side of a balcony, sexual advances and behavior of which most people fantasize about. In the great dichotomy of life one also is privy to a man who maintained his personal and emotional loyalty to friends and family of which few in this world can demonstrate, albeit left of center.

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Emmala Reed (1839–1893) may not have watched the unfolding of the Civil War from the front lines, but she nonetheless witnessed the collapse of the Confederacy. With the fall of Charleston and the burning of Columbia, waves of refugees flooded into her hometown of Anderson, South Carolina. Returning Confederate soldiers passed through this isolated settlement to get rations of cornmeal on their journey home, and eventually Union troops occupied the town. All the while this twenty-five-year-old, unmarried woman recorded what she observed from Echo Hall, her family home on Anderson's Main Street. Reed's journals from 1865 and 1866 present a detailed account of life in western South Carolina as war turned to reconstruction.

Reed's postwar writings are particularly important given their rarity—many Civil War diarists stopped writing at war's end. As the daughter of Judge Jacob Pinckney Reed, a prominent lawyer, merchant, and prewar Unionist, Reed offers a perspective different from the usual ardent secessionist. Also unlike many diarists of the period, Reed lived in a small town rather than on a plantation or in an urban center.

In her journals Reed captures the disheartening, chaotic period known as Presidential Reconstruction, the short span of time between the Confederate surrender and the beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction. She describes the apprehensions of people living in a relatively remote area at the war's end, the wide-eyed, end-of-the-war rumors that circulated throughout the South, and the steady procession of historically noteworthy people who moved through Anderson, many of whom visited her father at Echo Hall.

Into her account of public travail Reed intertwines details about her private life. She depicts social engagements, religious events, and school activities while often recording her hope for the return of her longtime suitor. Adding a heartbreaking twist to her chronicle, Reed writes candidly of her anguish and humiliation when, at last, he comes home only to marry another. ... Read more

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Diarist's words fascinting, editor's work at times lacking
Full disclosure - Emmala Reed was the sister of my great-great grandmother, Julia Susan Reed Brown.Aunt Emmala's reflections are fascinating.But, I am sorry about the inattention to detail on the part of the editor - such as listing my grandmother's name in the family tree as Catherine Helena Brown when her name was Caroline Helena Brown (Emmala refers to her as Carrie and that is how she was known as a girl - she was "Big Mama" to her own brood). In the family papers that my grandmother, Teresa Caroline Hammond Haltiwanger Cobb compiled, there is never any reference to her mother as Catherine.In the introduction, the names of the children of Jacob Pinckney Reed and Teresa Hammond Reed are given but, Julia Susan Reed's name simply appears as Susan. The average reader is not going to put two and two together to realize that Susan is really Julia.Julia Susan Reed was always known as Julia, and that is how her sister Emmala refers to her in her writings.I also wish the citations were more complete.For example, in the editorial there are assertions about the lineage of Jacob Pickney Reed but little information provided to allow researchers to pursue the documentation that led to the editor's conclusions.I hope that the mistakes in this publication do not get perpetuated.Just the same, I am grateful to have an intimate glimpse of my family. ... Read more

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The highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much-loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio.

“God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.” Richard Burton

“I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it’s true, I never looked back to see the casualties.” Richard Harris

“Booze is the most outrageous of all drugs, which is why I chose it.” Peter O’Toole

“I don’t have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I’d like to think I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.” Oliver Reed

This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers. ... Read more

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Hellraisers
An in-depth inside look at the chaotic, fantastic and hideously messy private lives of four legendary British actors of the latter 20th century: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Every page is filled with their amazing and almost unbelievable deeds of alcohol-fed insanity. Sharing much in common (including unique theatrical genius and a deep and abiding love of rugby), these men worked hard (citing numerous shudder-inducing stories of the horrors of location filming) and played even harder, suggesting that the downside of a life in the theater may be seriously overtaxing for some who tread the boards, and fueling the theory that the pain of coming out of a role may be far too great to endure without some form of anesthetic.

These men make today's tabloid faces seem pallid indeed: their tales trivialize any and all subsequent film stars' off-screen antics to the point of resembling kindergarten pranks. Three of them died as they lived, taking no prisoners (Reed fittingly passed on in a pub after a drunken evening arm-wrestling a group of Maltese sailors while filming "Gladiator", and Burton literally pickled himself to death--his autopsy found his spine to be completely encrusted with crystallized alcohol). However harrowing the results for the families of these wild men, none of the four expresses the least remorse at their lifelong excesses--to a man they vow they would do it all again in a heartbeat. And we believe them.They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Indeed they were!
This is sort of like reading a book-length version of England's tabloid newspapers, but it is fun. These four remarkable actors were indeed hellraisers! One is tempted to feel sad for the lives that ended too young and the (acting) work that didn't happen, but my god, they had a hell of a good time!

Hellraisers
Very entertaining book. Lots of juicy details about the hellraising antics of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed.Today's Hollywood's bad boys have got nothing on these guys!

Celebration of Lives
For fans of O'Toole, Harris, Burton and Reed, this book is a must.Well written and researched, it is a celebration of the lives of these incredible actors.It is never judgmental or mean-spirited-becausethese men were only having fun. Politically-correct will never apply to these men. How refreshing.Also how envious to live life on your terms! ... Read more

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This highly entertaining biography of four charismatic and much loved actors follows them through five decades of boozing, brawling and braggadocio.

At their career peaks, these four controversial actors had the whole world at their feet and lived through some of the wildest exploits Hollywood has ever seen. But all that fame had a price; Richard Burton’s liver was shot by the time he was 50, Richard Harris’s film career stalled for over a decade. Peter O’Toole’s drinking almost put him in the grave before his 43rd birthday, and Oliver Reed ended up dying prematurely.

This is the story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked — or staggered — off a film set into a pub. It’s a story of drunken binges of near biblical proportions, parties and orgies, broken marriages, drugs, riots and wanton sexual conquests. And yet these piss-artists were seemingly immune from the law. They got away with it because of their extraordinary acting talent and because the public loved them. They were truly the last of a breed, the last of the movie hellraisers.


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Chapters: Alcohol-Related Deaths in Malta, Beer and Breweries in Malta, Oliver Reed, Melchiorre Cafà, Simonds Farsons Cisk, Joseph Aquilina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway, Lion of the Desert and Gladiator. Reed was born Robert Oliver Reed in Wimbledon, London, to sports journalist Peter Reed and his wife Marcia (née Andrews). He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by his alleged mistress May Pinney Reed. He was alleged to have been a descendant (through an illegitimate step) of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Reed attended Ewell Castle School in Surrey. After time in the British Army, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Reed commenced his thespian career as an extra in films in the late 1950s. He had no acting training or theatrical experience. Oliver Reed appeared uncredited in an early Norman Wisdom classic, The Square Peg in 1958, and again with Norman Wisdom in another of his classic comedy films, The Bulldog Breed in (1960), where Reed played the leader of a gang of teddy boys roughing up Norman in a cinema. Reed got his first notable roles in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Captain Clegg (1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Reed also starred in Paranoiac, and These Are the Damned. In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System, (known as Th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=329908 ... Read more

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Top Ten doesn't really cover Reed's Top Ten
This paperback provides movie summaries (opposed to critical reviews) of ten Reed films, including: The Brood,Castaway,Curse of the Werewolf, The Damned,The Devils,The Hunting Party,I'll Never Forget What's 'IsName,Sitting Target,Venom,and Women in Love.

This is aninteresting list since the films generally considered as Reed's finest(Oliver! and The Three/Four Musketeers) if not most popular, are omitted.Why this is the case is a mystery to me since the criteria for which thefilm were selected is never mentioned. Still, with accompanying stills(sans photo credit), it gives fans a chance to read about Reed--somethingthat is not so easy to do these days. ... Read more

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Chapters: Alcohol-Related Deaths in Malta, Oliver Reed, Melchiorre Cafà, Joseph Aquilina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway, Lion of the Desert and Gladiator. Reed was born Robert Oliver Reed in Wimbledon, London, to sports journalist Peter Reed and his wife Marcia (née Andrews). He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by his alleged mistress May Pinney Reed. He was alleged to have been a descendant (through an illegitimate step) of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Reed attended Ewell Castle School in Surrey. After time in the British Army, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Reed commenced his thespian career as an extra in films in the late 1950s. He had no acting training or theatrical experience. Oliver Reed appeared uncredited in an early Norman Wisdom classic, The Square Peg in 1958, and again with Norman Wisdom in another of his classic comedy films, The Bulldog Breed in (1960), where Reed played the leader of a gang of teddy boys roughing up Norman in a cinema. Reed got his first notable roles in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Captain Clegg (1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Reed also starred in Paranoiac, and These Are the Damned. In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System, (known as The Girl-Getters in the U.S.). More Hammer Films prod...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=329908 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 - 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway, Lion of the Desert and Gladiator. Reed was born Robert Oliver Reed in Wimbledon, London, to sports journalist Peter Reed and his wife Marcia (née Andrews). He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by his alleged mistress May Pinney Reed. He is alleged to be a descendant (through an illegitimate step) of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Reed attended Ewell Castle School in Surrey. ... Read more

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Chapters: Oliver Reed, Melchiorre Cafà, Joseph Aquilina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oliver Reed (13 February 1938 2 May 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, Castaway, Lion of the Desert and Gladiator. Reed was born Robert Oliver Reed in Wimbledon, London, to sports journalist Peter Reed and his wife Marcia (née Andrews). He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by his alleged mistress May Pinney Reed. He was alleged to have been a descendant (through an illegitimate step) of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia. Reed attended Ewell Castle School in Surrey. After time in the British Army, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Reed commenced his thespian career as an extra in films in the late 1950s. He had no acting training or theatrical experience. Oliver Reed appeared uncredited in an early Norman Wisdom classic, The Square Peg in 1958, and again with Norman Wisdom in another of his classic comedy films, The Bulldog Breed in (1960), where Reed played the leader of a gang of teddy boys roughing up Norman in a cinema. Reed got his first notable roles in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Captain Clegg (1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Reed also starred in Paranoiac, and These Are the Damned. In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System, (known as The Girl-Getters in the U.S.). More Hammer Films productions followed, such as The Bri...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=329908 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Thurgood Marshall, John Marshall Harlan, Stanley Forman Reed, Oliver Ellsworth, Antonin Scalia, William Joseph Brennan, Samuel Alito, William Howard Taft, William Cushing, Liste Der Richter Am Obersten Gerichtshof Der Vereinigten Staaten, Anthony Kennedy, Harlan Fiske Stone, Felix Frankfurter, Fred M. Vinson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, James Wilson, Earl Warren, James C. Mcreynolds, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Joseph Rucker Lamar, Hugo Black, Roger B. Taney, Charles Evans Whittaker, Joseph Story, James F. Byrnes, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Johnson, William H. Rehnquist, Salmon P. Chase, Sonia Sotomayor, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, William H. Moody, Thomas Todd, Levi Woodbury, David Souter, John Rutledge, Nathan Clifford, William Johnson, Joseph Mckenna, John Mclean, Tom C. Clark, Sandra Day O'connor, John Paul Stevens, Four Horsemen of the Supreme Court, Potter Stewart, Stephen Johnson Field, Edward Douglass White Junior, Morrison R. Waite, Charles Evans Hughes, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Sutherland, Stephen Breyer, Chief Justice of the United States, James Iredell, Philip Pendleton Barbour, William O. Douglas, John Jay, Byron White, Sherman Minton, William Paterson, Louis Brandeis, Robert Cooper Grier, Alfred Moore, John Mckinley, Melville W. Fuller, Samuel Chase, John Marshall Harlan Ii, David Davis, Abe Fortas, Lewis F. Powell, Smith Thompson, Peter Vivian Daniel, John Blair, Gabriel Duvall, Samuel Nelson, John Catron, Bushrod Washington, Robert Trimble, William R. Day, Harry A. Blackmun, Henry Brockholst Livingston, James Moore Wayne, Warren E. Burger. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 - January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court a...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: Richard Gavin Reid, Austin Osman Spare, Oliver Reed, Edwin Morgan, Stanley Spencer, Hugh Macdiarmid, Harold Challenor, John Sillett, George Getgood, Conyers Kirby, Percy Toplis, Christopher R. W. Nevinson, Michael Heaviside, Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, John Crawford Buchan, Robert Colquhoun, Walter Nugent Monck, Michelle Norris, Henry Eric Harden, Harold Chapin, Adam Little, Joseph John Farmer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid (17 January 1879 17 October 1980) was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935. He was the last member of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) to hold the office, and that party's defeat at the hands of the upstart Social Credit League in the 1935 election made him the shortest-serving Premier in Alberta history. Born near Glasgow, Reid worked a number of jobs as a young adultincluding wholesaler, army medic (during the Second Boer War), farmhand, lumberjack, and dentistand immigrated to Canada in 1903. He involved himself in local politics and joined the recently formed UFA, which nominated him to run in the 1921 provincial election as its candidate in Vermilion. The UFA won the election, and Reid served in several capacities in the cabinets of Premiers Herbert Greenfield and John E. Brownlee, where he established a reputation for competence and fiscal conservatism. When a sex scandal forced Brownlee from office in 1934, Reid was the caucus' unanimous choice to succeed him as Premier. When Reid took office, Alberta was experiencing the Great Depression. Reid took measures to ease Albertans' suffering, but believed that inducing a full economic recovery was beyond the capacity of the provincial government. In this climate, Alberta voters were a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=233734 ... Read more

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Chapters: Kevin Smith, John Candy, David Carradine, Owen Hart, Tyrone Power, Brandon Lee, Oliver Reed, Roy Kinnear, Vic Morrow, Jon-Erik Hexum, Dar Robinson, Roger Delgado. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 114. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Carradine (December 8, 1936 - June 3, 2009) was an American character actor, best known for his role as Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu and its 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. He was a member of a productive acting dynasty that began with his father, John Carradine. His acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage, television and cinema, spanned over four decades. A prolific "B" movie actor, he appeared in more than 100 feature films and was nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award. The latest nomination was for his part in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. In addition to his acting career, Carradine was also a musician and pursued a directing career. Influenced by his most popular acting role, he studied martial arts. The child of a frequently married actor, "Jack", as Carradine was known in his youth, had an unstable childhood. This instability would continue throughout his life as he himself was married several times. He was also frequently arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses which often involved substance abuse. His death occurred in June 2009, under unusual circumstances. He was born John Arthur Carradine in Hollywood, California, the son of Ardanelle "Abigail" (née McCool) and noted American actor John Carradine. He was a brother of Bruce, half-brother of Keith, Christopher and Robert Carradine, and an uncle of Ever Carradine and Martha Plimpton. He was the great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine and the grandnephew of artist Will...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=551643 ... Read more