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Oprah : a biography / Kitty Kelley.
An extensively researched biography of Oprah Winfrey examines the personal life and career of the influential icon and discusses her place in modern American culture.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307394866 (hc)
- ISBN: 9780307749246
- ISBN: 030774924X
- ISBN: 0307394867
- ISBN: 9780307394873 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 524 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | Winfrey, Oprah. Television personalities > United States > Biography. Actors > United States > Biography. |
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- 22 of 22 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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- 1 current hold with 22 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | 921 KEL (Text) | 35101000299698 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful and admired public figures of our time is based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication. 600,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
An extensively researched biography of Oprah Winfrey examines the personal life and career of the influential icon and discusses her place in modern American culture. - Baker & Taylor
Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait of her provided by Kitty Kelley's exhaustively researched book. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really is beyond her public persona and a fuller understanding of her important place in American cultural history.--From publisher description. - Random House, Inc.
For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television history, she has gotten her guestsâoften the biggest celebrities in the worldâto bare their love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons. In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held views on the state of the world.
After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can there be any more secrets left to reveal?
Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.
Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fear¬lessly and relentlessly investigated and written about the worldâs most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, Englandâs Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1 bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their manufac¬tured facades.
Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us an unvarnished look at the stories Oprahâs told and the life sheâs led. Kelley has talked to Oprahâs closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprahâs legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfreyâs life, and it is as if sheâs written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show ever filmedâone in which Oprah herself is finally and fully revealed.
There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype. Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.
