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Irving Wallace (1916–1990)

Forfatter af The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists

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Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios---Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books. His first vis mere major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios. With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Værker af Irving Wallace

The Word (1972) 556 eksemplarer
The People's Almanac (1975) 442 eksemplarer
Den syvende hemmelighed (1986) 401 eksemplarer
The Seven Minutes (1969) 371 eksemplarer
The Second Lady (1980) 370 eksemplarer
The R Document (1976) 300 eksemplarer
The Man (1964) 297 eksemplarer
The Miracle (1984) 278 eksemplarer
For enhver pris (1962) 263 eksemplarer
The Fan Club (1974) 259 eksemplarer
Book of Lists #3 (1983) 249 eksemplarer
The Almighty (1982) 247 eksemplarer
The Pigeon Project (1979) 203 eksemplarer
The People's Almanac #3 (1981) 188 eksemplarer
The Plot (1967) 188 eksemplarer
The Celestial Bed (1987) 157 eksemplarer
The Guest of Honor (1989) 146 eksemplarer
The Three Sirens (1963) 135 eksemplarer
The Chapman Report (1961) 107 eksemplarer
The Golden Room (1989) 100 eksemplarer
The Twenty-Seventh Wife (1961) 90 eksemplarer
The Sunday Gentleman (1966) 58 eksemplarer
Significa (1983) 54 eksemplarer
The Sins of Philip Fleming (1959) 29 eksemplarer
The Writing of One Novel (1968) 28 eksemplarer
Some Interesting People and Times (1978) 7 eksemplarer
Bombers B-52 [1957 film] (1957) — Screenwriter — 7 eksemplarer
The Burning Hills [1956 film] (2015) — Screenwriter — 6 eksemplarer
Gun Fury [1953 film] — Writer — 5 eksemplarer
Foeminae (1965) 5 eksemplarer
O PRÉMIO 2 eksemplarer
O LEITO CELESTIAL 2 eksemplarer
As três sereias 2 eksemplarer
Ime : [romaan] (2006) 2 eksemplarer
A sala V.I.P 1 eksemplar
Le requin 1 eksemplar
El Séptimo Secreto 1 eksemplar
O milagre 1 eksemplar
The Silver Queen 1 eksemplar
Yancy Derringer: Loot from Richmond — Scriptwriter — 1 eksemplar
Bad for Each Other [1953 film] (1953) — Screenplay — 1 eksemplar
DELICESINE 1 eksemplar
Fabuloso empresario (1968) 1 eksemplar
Fan club. Vol I (1977) 1 eksemplar
Fan Club. Vol II 1 eksemplar
The Plot (1979) 1 eksemplar
GIZLI CENNET 1 eksemplar
Sedem minut 1 eksemplar
Irving Wallace 1 eksemplar
A Senha 1 eksemplar
TitreÅŸim 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1986 v02 (1986) — Forfatter — 37 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1977 v01 (1977) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
The Prize [1963 film] (1992) — Original novel — 8 eksemplarer
Famosos casos de estafa y pillaje (1977) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer

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This work, published in 1964, is about the surprising accession of a black man to the office of the presidency of the United States after the unexpected deaths of the president, the vice-president and the leader of the House of Representatives. In 1964, this would have been an amazing event, as the book demonstrates. I don't even remember (I was too young) if there were any black Americans in Congress at that time (John Lewis? not yet?). Now that we have had a black president who was popular enough to be elected to 2 terms in office, I suppose I must ask, as mentioned in the other review, whether this book is still relevant. I think the answer is unequivocally yes. "Bypassing" the color barrier with Barack Obama was certainly momentous, but we must acknowledge that Barack Obama was able to relate to people of all races and nationalities perhaps because of his experiences in a biracial family and maybe also because he was/is extremely charismatic and intelligent. The color barrier still exists for us normal people.

Having said this, I only gave this book 3 1/2 stars because it took so long to get to the interesting points. By slowly and solidly building the backgrounds of the characters and the story, it took a lot of patience to get to the part where conflicts and matters of race were injected into the daily running of the country and caused so much difficulty for President Dilman. Nevertheless, by the time I finished the book, I found that I liked it very much. The question that needs to be asked on a regular basis is: how do our black brethren in this country feel about our white countrymen? And vice versa? Can we become a colorblind society? What will it take to reach that goal? The outcome in the book is not perfect and it does not suggest that much progress will be made by having the first black president (at least in the 1960s) but it gives us hope and suggests the value of all victories — large and small — towards that goal.
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krazy4katz | 3 andre anmeldelser | Mar 17, 2024 |
This novel is very much in line with the stories like "Seven days in May" only difference being [and this is applicable also to modern thrillers where antagonists are either terrorists from all over the world or standard Cold War [like] Russia] that main concern here is not external enemy but internal one - crime.

We follow acting Attorney General Christopher Collins as he slowly (and entirely by accident) comes across a conspiracy that aims at changing the way country works using raising crime rates as a pretext.

It is a scary book - not as much because of the plot but because of the possibility. People trust their elected officials for guidance and if officials abuse their power (or are intentionally misled in their actions) then people will end up in a situation where they become oppressed party. Interesting thing here is that their oppressors [who are doing what they are doing always under the pretense of helping people] are now surprised because did not that same people vote for their current state of affairs - so why are they raising their voice now, are they the rebellious element of society? Dictators rarely see themselves as despots - they see themselves as parental figures (yes there were female dictators too through history) who guide their people because these people is always viewed by dictators as children that do not know better and need their's [dictator's] guidance at all times (famous excuse).

Very good book. Unfortunately it is also as relevant today as it was in 1970's when it was initially published.
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Medlemmer
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