Buy this book on-line COWLES**, FLEUR: : Friends & MemoriesLONDON.CAPE,1975. ISBN 0224011405.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-308pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+photograph lists,authoress introduction,19pp b/w contemporary photographs between pp211-232 and an index.
Journalist,painter and inveterate world traveller,Fleur Cowles recaptures the quintessential moments of a life crowded with achievement and adventure.With her camera-eye for setting and detail and her exact recall of conversation and nuance, she is able to re-create an intimate evening with the Jouhnsons on the L.B.J. Ranch,a hazardous visit to Salvador Dali and an exchange of confidences with Gamal Abdel Nasser.Her acquaintance with an extraordinary number of White House occupants began when she was a consultant to the Famine Emergency Committee assisting Herbert Hoover.But her most valued friend in the Oval Office was President Eisenhower,who often sent her on personal diplomatic missions and it was
as an ambassador that she attended the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.Her account of the elaborate logistics and split-second timing that went into those royal occasions makes fascinating reading.
After moving to England in 1955 she began to pursue seriously her ambitions as a painter.The invitation to exhibit in the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1965 marked her first international recognition and today her work is included in major collections all over the world.See also rja2038, rja2039 and rja2109,for examples of her illustrated books and artwork. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of COWLES**, FLEUR: : Friends & Memories. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including first editions, collectables, incunabula, livres anciens and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |