Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein [Hardcover]

Patrick O'Higgins (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: The Viking Press; 1st edition (July 26, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670445304
• ISBN-13: 978-0670445301
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,612,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rubinstein made immortal, December 19, 2001

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Rog Mc Ewhie (Jacksonville, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein (Hardcover)

Patrick O'higgins has truly made the Madame immortal. I am saddened that this book is not being republished.

It is a beautiful and exciting story of a dynamo woman replete with all of her mannerisms and ways and torrents of actual words and comings and goings and who just seemed to be in charge of the whole friggin universe.

Although she died in 1965, I would call it page by page absorbing and interesting.I would think that women would still flock to be in line to buy it. Mr O'higgins wrote this completely exposé yarn for all readers thou perhaps mainly for the weaker sex.

Written in '68 - '70; Madame passed at the age of 95.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One on my favorites, September 27, 2008

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Dwight Dekeyser "Dwight in DC" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Madame: An Intimate Biography of Helena Rubinstein (Hardcover)

I reread this book every couple of years. I never tire of the story with its history, gossip, and indefatigable humor. It's a biography and a personal account of a relationship between a young man and his boss -- an old woman, who just happens to be one of the greatest industrialists of the twentieth century and an extraordinary character. The more you know of the period and its personalities: Picasso, Dior, Arden, Snow, the more you'll enjoy this book. It's pure fun.