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Chargement... Oprah: A Biographypar Kitty Kelley
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  bookishblond | Oct 24, 2018 |   showaelc | Mar 5, 2016 | The author has clearly researched extensively - there is fact upon fact upon fact - but there is absolutely no humanity, no warmth, no attempt to bathe the subject in a warm glow of affection, respect or love. I came away with the idea that Oprah is a tireless worker who rose to the top with a combination of talent, drive and the luck of extremely good timing. She also is depicted to be selfish, self-serving and generally unpleasant to all except those whom she trusts (very few) and finds worthy. I read the whole book. I've never been an Oprah fan so none of it offended me. I hope I will never, ever be rich or famous enough for Kitty Kelley to want to have a go at me. (  ) EvelynBernard | Oct 25, 2015 | t2creech | Apr 11, 2011 |  ) Sandra305 | Mar 6, 2011 |
 Kanske har författaren rätt i sin bild, men trovärdigheten dränks av den kvasipsykologiska analysen och illa dolda förtjusningen över skvallret. Vi får fortsätta att vänta på de större förklaringarna av hur ett av vår tids största mediefenomen kom till. However unsportingly, Oprah has locked up tight most of the people who get whatever it is about her that we don’t. Kelley’s pen is not dripping poison so much as slightly curdled milk.  And so what if the most damaging truths about Winfrey have originated not with her but with her disgruntled family of origin? This at least has the benefit of making Kitty Kelley's latest book more scrupulously sourced than some of its predecessors.  An impeccably researched and well-organized look into the unlikely life of a self-made woman... Kelley might not have spoken to her subject, but she gets her just the same. Ms. Kelley cannot explain why Ms. Winfrey is so enduringly popular. After some hollow authorial claims of respect and admiration, “Oprah” just aims for the jugular. It doesn’t draw blood. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
Biography & Autobiography.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influ¬ential show in television history, she has gotten her guests??often the biggest celebrities in the world??to 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 world??s most revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, England??s 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 Oprah??s told and the life she??s led. Kelley has talked to Oprah??s closest family members and business associates. She has obtained court records, birth certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprah??s legendary (and punishing) confidentiality agreements. She has probed every aspect of Oprah Winfrey??s life, and it is as if she??s written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show ever filmed??one 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 sur Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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So, of course I read it. Kitty Kelley certain did her research, just like everyone else is saying in the reviews on Goodreads. I haven't watched Oprah's talk show very much, except with my mother (women her age are Oprah's primary audience) and I didn't know very much about Oprah. Now I feel like I know ALL about her. This is a very interesting book, if a bit long, but I would recommend it to a biography junkie. (