Private Scandals

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101146079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a captivating novel set in the world of television talk shows that reveals the ambitious dreams of a savvy young woman—and the dark obsessions that threaten all she’s worked for. Deanna Reynolds had it all planned: She’d start out in the newsroom of a small Chicago station, then move up to host her own talk show. When her mentor Angela Perkins leaves for New York, Deanna risks everything for the chance to replace Angela on the air. The network’s sexiest journalist, Finn Riley, admires Deanna’s daring ambition. But soon they are caught up in the bitter backlash of Angela’s revenge—and they must unmask the hidden betrayals of Deanna’s fiercest rival by taking the biggest risk of all....

Private Scandals

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0515152978
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Private Scandals

Author: Christy Cohen
Publisher: Fanfare
ISBN: 9780553560534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
A tempestuous tale of ambition and desire--in the vein of Danielle Steel and Katherine Stone. Best friends Alexandra, Clementine, and Megan are as different as three people can be, except for their shared desire to be on top. And when one man enters their lives, the financial whiz, beautiful model, and love-starved wife learn that passion can threaten even the strongest friendships.

Sex Scandal

Author: William A. Cohen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822318484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
"Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages - and never has its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. By viewing this fiction alongside the most alarming public scandals of the day, Cohen exposes both the scandalousness of this literature and its sexiness." "In narratives ranging from Great Expectations to the Boulton and Park sodomy scandal of 1870-71, from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality. Cohen shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. He identifies an assortment of cunning narrative techniques used to insinuate sex into Victorian writing, demonstrating that even as such narratives air the scandalous subject, they emphasize its unspeakable nature. Written with an eye toward the sex scandals that still whet the appetites of consumers of news and novels, this work is suggestive about our own modes of imagining sexuality today and how we arrived at them."--BOOK JACKET.

Vanity Fair's Schools For Scandal

Author: Graydon Carter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501173758
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal brings together the magazine’s finest reporting on the scandals that have swept our nation’s most elite campuses over the past twenty-five years—all collected in one definitive, “fascinating, eye-opening” (Booklist) volume edited by Graydon Carter and introduced by Cullen Murphy. Many of us have long suspected an American obsession with status. Now Graydon Carter has collected extraordinary articles from Vanity Fair that show the lengths we will go to achieve it, preserve it, or destroy it—from the enduring, shadowy influence of Yale’s secret societies to the infamous “senior salute” at St. Paul’s School; from the false accusations in the Duke lacrosse team’s infamous rape case to the (mis)reportage of a sexual assault at the University of Virginia; from a deadly extreme-sport episode at Oxford to the Keystone Kop theft of a college’s rare books to the allegations of fraud by the now-shuttered Trump University. Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal brings focus to the perils facing American education today and how the life of the mind, and the significance of the institutions meant to foster it, has been negatively impacted by the partisan politics of privatization, tensions over so-called political correctness, the fraught dynamic of the teacher-student relationship, and what happens when visions for a bold future collide with the desire to maintain hidebound (or venerable) traditions. With an array of Vanity Fair’s signature writers—including Buzz Bissinger, William D. Cohan, Sarah Ellison, Evgenia Peretz, Todd S. Purdum, and Sam Tanenhaus, among others—Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal presents a compelling if troubling account of the state of elite education today, and the evolving social, sexual, racial, and economic forces that have shaped it.

Three Complete Novels

Author: Nora Roberts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399147319
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 924

Book Description
Three dramatic tales of romantic suspense journey from a Montana ranch to a Virginia horse farm to an island off the coast of Georgia in an omnibus anthology that features True Betrayals, Montana Sky, and Sanctuary. 20,000 first printing.

Media Scandals

Author: James Lull
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231111652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
By exploring how scandals fuel mass media and popular culture, this book should stimulate discussion about the subject.

Private Scandals

Author: Judy Christenberry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780373835829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Private Scandals by Joanna Wayne\Judy Christenberry\Tori Carrington released on Dec 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.

HUD Scandals

Author: Irving Welfeld
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351514741
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Mention the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the word scandal comes to mind. When it comes to recent history, the association is quite accurate; in 1989-90 congressional panels were investigating -abuses, favoritism, and mismanagement- at HUD; in 1954 HUD's predecessor, the Federal Housing Administration, was targeted by the FBI for involvement in fraudulent home-improvement schemes; in the 1970s HUD was scrutinized for lax lending standards, blatant overappraisals, and shoddy housing. In this ground-breaking volume, Irving Welfeld, a senior analyst with HUD, describes and explains these sensational episodes as well as a series of hidden blunders that have cost taxpayers billions of dollars. In this thorough, firsthand account, Welfeld provides not only soundly documented history, but analyses of events that arrive at different interpretations than Congress reached in its investigations. Throughout, his readings ask hard and probing questions: Where were the overseers--the media, Congress, the General Accounting Office, the Office of Management and Budget? To what extent is poor management the root cause of HUD's failures? Will tighter regulation help in keeping out corruption? After his comprehensive survey of the scene, Welfeld goes the final step and offers solutions: a set of programs that would minimize secrecy on the part of federal administrators and the temptation to abuse the public trust. Most importantly, the programs outlined here will enable HUD to more effectively fulfill its mission to see that there is decent affordable housing for all Americans. HUD Scandals will be of interest to scholars of public administration, political scientists, and analysts of housing issues.

The City and Sex

Author: Mary Beth McConahey
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149851829X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the book identifies a trajectory of decline beginning in the twentieth century, by which Americans became less tutored in virtue, less spirited in citizenship, less agreed on questions of moral significance, and ultimately less dexterous in exercising the skills of self-government. It seeks to show that the freedom from virtue won through the collapse of moral standards has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned against in the 1830s.