Florence Foster Jenkins
The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer
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"People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing."
Despite lacking pitch, rhythm, or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian parents, Florence was a talented young pianist, but her life was thrown into turmoil when she eloped with Frank Jenkins, a man twice her age. The marriage proved a disaster, and, in order to survive, Florence was forced to abandon her dreams of a musical career and teach the piano. Then her father died in 1909, and, newly installed in New York, she used a considerable inheritance to fund her passion. She set up a prestigious amateur music club and began staging operas.
Aided by her English common-law husband, St Clair Bayfield, she worked tirelessly to support the city's musical life. Many young singers owed their start to Florence, but she, too, yearned to perform and began giving regular recitals that quickly attracted a cult following. And yet nothing could prepare the world for the astonishing climax of her career when, at the age of 76, she performed at the most hallowed concert hall in America.
In Florence Foster Jenkins, Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees tell her extraordinary story, which inspired the film starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, directed by Stephen Frears.
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Informative, but no sizzle
- De OzEnigma en 06-01-17
De: Mary McAuliffe
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The Curse of Beauty
- The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel
- De: James Bone
- Narrado por: Marianne Fraulo
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist's model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, actress, icon - her beauty paved the way for a life of glamour, passion, and ultimately tragedy. Her name is Audrey Munson.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De Аmazon Customer en 04-06-17
De: James Bone
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Emily Post
- Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
- De: Laura Claridge
- Narrado por: Christine Williams
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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From the excesses of the late 19th-century Gilded Age, through the horrors of World War I, to the transformations of the Roaring 20s that gave birth to her magisterial Etiquette, Emily Post unfailingly took the measure of her era. A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, she helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book, which has been continuously in print for over 85 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Typical for Emily Post
- De Stephanie en 01-07-19
De: Laura Claridge
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Something Wonderful
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution
- De: Todd S. Purdum
- Narrado por: Todd S. Purdum
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous book about Rodgers & Hammerstein!!!
- De BigWally en 06-27-18
De: Todd S. Purdum
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High Society
- The Life of Grace Kelly
- De: Donald Spoto
- Narrado por: George K Wilson
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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In just seven years---from 1950 through 1956---Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in 11 movies. From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented actresses and iconic beauties.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Find a better Grace Kelly biography, I'd skip this
- De Daniel en 08-20-12
De: Donald Spoto
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Mademoiselle
- Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
- De: Rhonda Garelick
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 16 h y 36 m
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Little black dresses. Fake pearls. Jersey knit. Blazers. Ballet flats. Today - and for nearly the last hundred years - we all see some version of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel every time we pass a woman on the street. But few among us realize that Chanel’s role in the events of the twentieth century was as pervasive as her influence on fashion, or how deeply she absorbed and then brilliantly reimagined the historical currents around her.
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1 out of 5 stars
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An Unlikable Portrait
- De Sara en 09-25-16
De: Rhonda Garelick
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The Riviera Set
- Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
- De: Mary S. Lovell
- Narrado por: Jill Rolls
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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The Riviera Set reveals the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped, and politicked at the Château de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of 40 years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 1960. At the heart of dynamic group was the amazing Maxine Elliott, the daughter of a fisherman from Connecticut, who built the beautiful art deco Château.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riviera Set
- De Lois Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Mary S. Lovell
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
- A Biography of Princess Louise
- De: Lucinda Hawksley
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 16 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly Frustrating
- De JayOne en 01-16-20
De: Lucinda Hawksley
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George and Marina
- Duke and Duchess of Kent
- De: Christopher Warwick
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy's - indeed, high society's - most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons, they are still remembered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging
- De Jean en 06-02-17
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Proust's Duchess
- How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris
- De: Caroline Weber
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 29 h y 52 m
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Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enthralling, entertaining and brilliant
- De Uli Baer en 01-14-19
De: Caroline Weber
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After the Romanovs
- Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
- De: Helen Rappaport
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food, and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all that Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation, such as Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mildly interesting story of Russians exiles
- De Conrad Hastler en 05-20-22
De: Helen Rappaport
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Those Wild Wyndhams
- Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
- De: Claudia Renton
- Narrado por: Claudia Renton
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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They were confidantes to British prime ministers, poets, writers, and artists, their lives entwined with the most celebrated and scandalous figures of the day, from Oscar Wilde to Henry James. They were the lovers of great men - or men of great prominence... They lived in a world of luxurious excess, a world of splendor at 44 Belgrave Square and later at the even more vast Clouds, the exquisite Wiltshire house on 4,000 acres, the "house of the age", designed in 1876 by the visionary architect Philip Webb - the model for Henry James' The Spoils of Poynton.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SLOW START BUT STICK WITH THIS ONE
- De The Louligan en 01-22-19
De: Claudia Renton
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Wallis in Love
- The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy
- De: Andrew Morton
- Narrado por: Molly Parker Myers
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 131
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times best seller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This one is being returned
- De Rita T en 02-15-18
De: Andrew Morton
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Prince Charles
- The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
- De: Sally Bedell Smith
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor, Sally Bedell Smith
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 388
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Elizabeth the Queen comes the first major biography of Prince Charles in more than 20 years - perfect for fans of The Crown. Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look at Prince Charles, the oldest heir to the throne in more than 300 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Diana dissed at every chance
- De Ray Y en 09-12-17
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The Sisters
- The Saga of the Mitford Family
- De: Mary S. Lovell
- Narrado por: Annie Wauters
- Duración: 18 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana was the most hated woman in England; and Unity Valkyrie, born in Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, terrible reader
- De Victoria en 02-27-14
De: Mary S. Lovell
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America's Queen
- The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- De: Sarah Bradford
- Narrado por: Sandra Burr
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Using remarkable new sources, Sarah Bradford has written a timely celebration of a life that was more private than commonly supposed. Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's friends shows the complexities of this apparently very public relationship and of her controversial marriage to Aristotle Onassis. Here is the private Jackie - neglected wife, vigilant mother, and working widow - whose contradictory and fascinating nature is illuminated by all that Bradford has discovered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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American Royalty
- De Kindle Customer en 06-10-16
De: Sarah Bradford
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The Mistresses of Cliveden
- Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
- De: Natalie Livingstone
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
Overlooking the Thames, the Cliveden mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. Throughout its storied history, Cliveden has been a setting for misbehavior, intrigue, and passion - from its salacious, deadly beginnings in the 17th century to the 1960s Profumo affair, the sex scandal that toppled the British government. Now, in this immersive chronicle, the manor's current mistress, Natalie Livingstone, opens the doors to this prominent house and lets the walls do the talking.
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2 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- De Galina M. en 11-14-16
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Florence Foster Jenkins
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- Angela
- 07-20-17
Florence book
Very different from what I expected. Didnt get past the voice,definitely not what I would of picked. For me the content was to much about others and not about Florence especially in the beginning. Hopefully the movie will be more gripping.
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- Helen R. Cook
- 11-08-16
Jenkins book
While the story is fascinating (and I DID listen to the whole book), I found the patronizing tone of the reader INSUFFERABLE and INSULTING to the listener. I realize that she thought she was being clever in trying to indicate the over-blown style of the subject - it was condescending to the listener!
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- Annette Lievers
- 08-09-16
Boring
Boring. I sure hope the movie is better. Only made it though the 1st 2 chapters.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-24-16
So boring
I got the audio book in anticipation of the movie. Now I am dreading seeing the movie because the book was so boring.
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