Format:
1 online resource (489 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781590775226
Content:
Here is a catalog of eccentrics--the men and women who broke the mold and give us a glimpse of inspired flakiness, a peek at the outrageous. Written in anecdotal style and arranged alphabetically, the stories reveal the most provocative highlights of larger-than-life legends like Howard Hughes, Mary Astor, Salvador Dalí and Aleister Crowley.
Content:
Zanies -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A -- Albert Abrams -- Hans Christian Andersen -- George Antheil -- Matthew Arnold -- Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein -- Russell Arundel -- Mary Astor -- B -- Delia Salter Bacon -- Phineas Taylor Barnum -- John Sidney Blythe Barrymore -- Finis Bates -- Jeremy Bentham -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Russell Birdwell -- Maxwell Bodenheim -- Junius Brutus Booth -- Clara Bow -- James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady -- John R. Brinkley -- Edward West ("Daddy") Browning -- George Gordon Noel Byron -- C -- (Joseph Balsamo) Cagliostro -- Enrico Caruso -- Leonard Casley -- Charles Chaplin -- Charles Langdon Clarke -- Georges Clemenceau -- Robert Coates -- Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb -- William Horace de Vere Cole -- Thomas B. Connery -- Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan -- John ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin -- John Sargent Cram -- Hart Crane -- Francesca Cremonse -- Aleister Crowley -- Michael Curtiz -- D -- Salvador Dali -- Charles Dawson -- Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean -- John Dee -- Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Jr. -- Timothy Dexter -- Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev -- Raymond Ditmars -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Doris Duke -- Isadora Duncan -- E -- George Eastman -- Thomas Alva Edison -- F -- W.C. Fields -- Horace Fletcher -- Henry Ford -- James Vincent Forrestal -- William Frawley -- G -- Marshall B. Gardner -- Frank Garner -- ("Colonel") Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali -- Clemente Giglio -- Samuel Goldwyn -- Waxey (Irving Wexler) Gordon -- Joseph Ferdinand Gould -- Dr. James Graham -- Harry Greb -- Hetty (Howland Robinson) Green -- Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan -- Nubar Gulbenkian -- George Ivan Gurdjieff -- H -- Wenceslaus Hanka -- James A. Harden-Hickey -- Gaylord Hauser -- William Randolph Hearst -- Jemmy Hirst -- Halbert Louis Hoard -- J. Edgar Hoover -- Brian G. Hughes -- Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. -- George Hull.
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Language:
English
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