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Title: Dancing with the Devil : The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue by Christopher Wilson ISBN: 0-312-28896-4 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 20 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good writing...
Comment: But, the story is so tawdry & Jimmy Donahue so scurvy, it's a hard read. The author presents information about his upbringing that tries to make you feel a little sympathy for Donahue but it's hard to feel sympathy for such a loser. The Duke & Duchess of Windsor were wastes of human beings, too. The more you read about them the more discouraged you get. What wasted opportunities! They could have done so much good but were such selfish, self-centered & STUPID people. No wonder the Royal Family can't stand to hear their names mentioned. The book reads kind of like a prolonged Dominick Dunne article in Vanity Fair.
Rating: 4
Summary: Take it to the beach...
Comment: OK, so the author isn't going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for this book. But why should he? It's a book about an affair. A tawdry affair at that.
Initially, I payed attention to the other reviewers and didn't buy the book. But I have a fascination with Wallis and Edward (as vapid as they might have been...)and wanted to know more about Wallis' relationship with Jimmy Donohue. I must have read at least 10 to 15 books about the couple, and despite what the one of the reviewers said, I've only come across a few rare references to him. This book fills in the gaps.
So is it great literature? No. Is it an interesting book? Yes, if you like the subject matter, and know something about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to begin with. I enjoyed the book.
Rating: 1
Summary: I'd had hopes, but...
Comment: This book doesn't do much more than re-hash rumor, gossip and innuendo--and some facts--that I've already read in better-written, more thorough and scholarly biographies of the Windsors. I didn't notice any glaring inaccuracies; on the other hand, I didn't notice that the author broke any new ground. He seems to have relied heavily on previously published biographies of the Duke, the Duchess, and the British Royal Family in general, all of which a serious Windsorite will have already read. Also--let's face it--we read books like this one to be titillated, and the author fails utterly to titillate us. Save your money.
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Title: The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson by Greg King ISBN: 1559724714 Publisher: Carol Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers, Fritz von der Schulenberg, Joseph Friedman ISBN: 0789202263 Publisher: Abbeville Press, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $67.50 |
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Title: A King's Story - The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor by Edward Windsor, Duke of Windsor, HRH The Duke of Windsor ISBN: 1853753033 Publisher: Prion Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: LAST OF THE DUCHESS, THE by Caroline Blackwood ISBN: 0679439706 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 14 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty by Karl Shaw ISBN: 0767907558 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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