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Before turning to novel-writing, William Kronick enjoyed a long career as both a documentary and theatrical filmmaker. As writer-director, his highly acclaimed Network Specials ranged from the National Geographic's Alaska! to six Plimpton! entertainments to Mysteries of the Great Pyramid. In the feature arena, he directed the comedy, The 500 Pound Jerk , and the Second Unit on such major productions as King Kong (1976), Flash Gordon and others...

Before turning to novel-writing, William Kronick enjoyed a long career as both a documentary and theatrical filmmaker. As writer-director, his highly acclaimed Network Specials ranged from the National Geographic's Alaska! to six Plimpton! entertainments to Mysteries of the Great Pyramid. In the feature arena, he directed the comedy, The 500 Pound Jerk , and the Second Unit on such major productions as King Kong (1976), Flash Gordon and others...

A critique of the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right which focuses on the attempt by Herrnstein and Murray in The Bell Curve to provide theoretical justification for social programme cutbacks and coercive social policies.

Cooley Wyatt is a gripping morality tale that pits the values of a well-born, Harvard-educated 'new journalist' against those of a poor, self-taught folk-singer whose fame lasts only six years before he dies in a plane crash in 1972. The near-present. Passing an East Side New York hotel, Jack bumps into a Western-dressed man and his wife about to leave in a cab. In a split-second of recognition, Jack believes the man to be Cooley Wyatt. Jack d...

Cooley Wyatt is a gripping morality tale that pits the values of a well-born, Harvard-educated 'new journalist' against those of a poor, self-taught folk-singer whose fame lasts only six years before he dies in a plane crash in 1972.The near-present. Passing an East Side New York hotel, Jack bumps into a Western-dressed man and his wife about to leave in a cab. In a split-second of recognition, Jack believes the man to be Cooley Wyatt. Jack de...

To all who came in contact with him, Ted Corcoran's personality had an unique, potent effect: somehow his relaxed demeanor, clear, soothing voice and physical attractiveness made his words resonate as few other's did. His opinion or advice, when asked for, invariably was taken and proved correct. From the time he first was told of his impact on others, he never overtly made capital of it since he didn't give credence to the 'flattery.' He attr...

To all who came in contact with him, Ted Corcoran's personality had an unique, potent effect: somehow his relaxed demeanor, clear, soothing voice and physical attractiveness made his words resonate as few other's did. His opinion or advice, when asked for, invariably was taken and proved correct. From the time he first was told of his impact on others, he never overtly made capital of it since he didn't give credence to the 'flattery.' He attr...

The colorful, morally complex life of Matthew Fleming, an actor of rare talent, from an impoverished but work-filled decade in Off-Broadway theaters through his 'overnight' success on Broadway - then on to international acclaim as a charismatic movie star - is the 'stuff of this gripping novel. Matt is haunted by the belief his leap from obscurity to fame wasn't due to his gift alone but also to the death of a wealthy lover, Andrea Whittaker. ...

The colorful, morally complex life of Matthew Fleming, an actor of rare talent, from an impoverished but work-filled decade in Off-Broadway theaters through his 'overnight' success on Broadway - then on to international acclaim as a charismatic movie star - is the 'stuff of this gripping novel. Matt is haunted by the belief his leap from obscurity to fame wasn't due to his gift alone but also to the death of a wealthy lover, Andrea Whittaker. ...

In affairs of the heart, is it possible for two adults, different as day from night in backgrounds, professions and life experiences, who fall in love, to extend their passion into a lasting relationship? Especially when each carries a dark secret that will always haunt him and her, together or apart? Ostensibly Spencer King, a renowned astrophysicist at MIT in Boston and Charlotte Grace, a by-lined, free-lance photo-journalist in New York hav...

In affairs of the heart, is it possible for two adults, different as day from night in backgrounds, professions and life experiences, who fall in love, to extend their passion into a lasting relationship? Especially when each carries a dark secret that will always haunt him and her, together or apart? Ostensibly Spencer King, a renowned astrophysicist at MIT in Boston and Charlotte Grace, a by-lined, free-lance photo-journalist in New York hav...

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