From royalty to rock stars, Count the Ways delves into some of the most captivating love affairs of our times, including the obstacles, dramas, joys, and not-always-happy endings. Learn how love conquered the British monarchy when Edward VIII abdicated his throne in favor of the American divorceée Wallis Simpson. Wonder why the love of Lee Krasner kept painter Jackson Pollock sane, yet the devotion of F. Scott Fitzgerald drove his wife, Zelda, mad. Witness the courage of love with Christopher and Dana Reeve, as their marriage overcame a tragic accident to give new meaning to the vows "in sickness and in health." Observe how Ronald and Nancy Reagan proved that love and politics can mix and how Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow showed how love and crime do not. And don't forget Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the tumultuously enamored couple for whom fighting was itself a kind of lovemaking. These stories and many others are here, each accompanied by a striking black-and-white photo of the couple. Love stories are too often reduced to either storybook romance or scandal, but--as Count the Ways proves--the truth behind them often turns out to be more interesting . . . and more romantic.
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Lovebirds and starstruck voyeurs may be interested in Count the Ways: The Great Love Stories of Our Time. Journalist Paul Aron (Unsolved Mysteries of American History) writes about celebrated (or reviled) couples like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. The couples mostly straight, white and extremely well known are divided into categories like "Actors and Actresses" and "Royals and Rulers." Aron briefly summarizes each relationship, outlining how the couple met and following the trajectory whether tragic, sordid or heartwarming of each romance.
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From royalty to rock stars, Count the Ways delves into some of the most captivating love affairs of our times, including the obstacles, dramas, joys, and not-always-happy endings
Learn how love conquered the British monarchy when Edward VIII abdicated his throne in favor of the American divorceée Wallis Simpson. Wonder why the love of Lee Krasner kept painter Jackson Pollock sane, yet the devotion of F. Scott Fitzgerald drove his wife, Zelda, mad. Witness the courage of love with Christopher and Dana Reeve, as their marriage overcame a tragic accident to give new meaning to the vows "in sickness and in health." Observe how Ronald and Nancy Reagan proved that love and politics can mix and how Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow showed how love and crime do not. And don't forget Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the tumultuously enamored couple for whom fighting was itself a kind of lovemaking.
These stories and many others are here, each accompanied by a striking black-and-white photo of the couple. Love stories are too often reduced to either storybook romance or scandal, but--as Count the Ways proves--the truth behind them often turns out to be more interesting . . . and more romantic.
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Paul Aron is Managing Editor of Publications at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Previously he was a reporter for The Virginia Gazette, executive editor at Simon and Schuster, and editor at Doubleday.
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When Gracie Allen and George Burns first teamed up for a new vaudeville act-in Newark, New Jersey, in 1923-they walked to center stage, hand in hand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When Gracie Allen and George Burns first teamed up for a new vaudeville act-in Newark, New Jersey, in 1923-they walked to center stage, hand in hand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, First Lady, Ronald Reagan, Woodrow Wilson, Joanne Woodward, Katharine Hepburn, Nancy Reagan, Roy Rogers, United States, White House, Spencer Tracy, Emma Parker, New Mexico, Prince of Wales, Wallis Simpson, Alfred Stieglitz, Edith Wilson, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Andrew Parker Bowles, League of Nations, Marilyn Monroe, Gore Vidal, King Edward, The Springs New!
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- Beautiful and Damned by Scott F Fitzgerald on page 197, and page 199
- This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald on page 194, and page 197
- Beautiful and Damned, The by F. Scott Fitzgerald on page 197, and page 199
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