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James Stewart: A Biography

Author : Donald Dewey

Performed By : Tom Parker

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 19 hours

Categories : Rich & Famous
TV & Film
Arts & Drama
Biographical

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"Going beyond biography, Donald Dewey captures the wistful America of the 1940s

and '50s and the screen icon who symbolized it.With polished ease and impeccable pacing,

Parker brings listeners into each chapter and onto each movie set to glimpse Hollywood's inner

workings. Parker narrates with the same casual yet focused flair that characterized Stewart's

acting style. In this way, Parker lends an instant comfort and intimacy to the text and its subject,

while giving Dewey's writing center stage to engage and captivate the listener."AudioFile



"[A] voluminous, highly intelligent look at one of the richest and most complex of Hollywood star

personas, not incidentally, one of the industry's most beloved actors.very astute is the analysis

of Stewart's career choices, and the detailed recounting of his distinguished record as a bomber

pilot and squad commander during WW II is downright moving.A model of how to do a serious

but entertaining Hollywood biography."Kirkus Reviews



In the most penetrating and in-depth biography yet written about the beloved screen icon,

award-winning author Donald Dewey delves beneath the persona into the usually unremarked turmoil of

the actor's private life and behind the earnest Capraesque image so often accepted as the Stewart identity.

He draws upon extensive research and nearly two hundred interviews to follow Stewart from his hometown

of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and a childhood shaped by a strong-willed father, to the fateful encounter at

Princeton University with actress Margaret Sullavan, to his first professional theatrical experiences on

Cape Cod and the forging of a remarkable life-long friendship with Henry Fonda in New York, to his

unexpected stardom at MGM.



Tom Parker, recipient of the Golden Voice award, records a remarkable variety of books while pursuing his love of theater by directing two or three professional stage productions a year in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The

Author : Mark Twain

Performed By : Mike McShane

Publisher : Harper Collins UK

Runtime : 2 hours 52 minutes

Categories : Classics
Classic Literature
Classics
Over 10s

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Mark Twain's classic tale recounts the adventures of the ever resourceful Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn in the little town of St Petersburg, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi.

A story of robbers, graveyards at midnight, buried treasure, and a deep and mysterious cave, 'Tom Sawyer' has lost none of its power to enthral and delight since it was first published in 1876.