Shunt tells the story of James Hunt's life, his victories on the track, the girls he loved and lost and the huge amounts of money he earned and spent. No stone has been left unturned, no fact too small to include, including his lifelong devotion to dogs and budgerigars. It is the first proper story of a man loved by all those that knew him well but despised by people who did not understand the rules by which he lived his life. It is a story of a man whose like will almost certainly never be seen again.
This is an illustrated account of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna's life. It examines every detail - from his early days, to his first race and on to his world championships to his pole positions and finally his death and its aftermath.
A sweeping family saga spanning 1898 to 1984 - stretching from the mining fields of South Wales to the film sets of Hollywood and from the playhouses of Cardiff to the grand theatres of Broadway - this far-reaching biography examines every detail and facet of the life of one of Britain's greatest-ever actors, Richard Burton.
This book is about the life of Ayrton Senna, the three times Formula One world champion. It is the first proper story of a man the world revered and whose like will never be seen again. In this first full account of the life of Senna, the author and his collaborators examine each detail of the driving maestro's life - from his earliest days to his first race, his pole positions and his world championships - as well as his death and its aftermath. It is a story that has never been fully or properly told, and it is a story that needed to be told.
Jesse Livermore was, in many people's opinion, the greatest investor and stock and commodities trader that ever operated on Wall Street. He was, almost simultaneously, the man who made the most money in a single day on the stock exchange and the man who lost the most money in a single day. This is his story.
Jesse Livermore, was the most successful stock trader that ever operated. Singlehandedly he caused the two great Wall Street crashes of 1907 and 1929, making millions from both. Briefly in the early 1930s he was one of the world's richest men with a personal fortune believed to be worth over $150 million. It was too extreme a change of fortunes and Livermore shot himself in a New York hotel lobby in 1940 aged just 63.
"White Music is the first full length biography of the maestro, Barry White. White was born in Galveston in 1944. Melvin White, Barry's father, was already married with two children of his own; something of which his mother Sadie Carter had no knowledge. Sadie and baby Barry soon returned to Los Angeles where a brother Darryl joined the family 16 months later. She and her two sons made the best of their lives and lived happily in the Watts area of Los Angeles. As soon as he could walk and talk Barry displayed a musical bent, while Darryl became a young thug, terrorising the neighbours. Sadie bought a piano, then a gramophone to help her son develop. He dazzled the church choir with his talents and was running it by the age of 12. Barry's life changed forever when his voice broke at 14. And from that moment, armed with a voice like no one else on the planet, he began a 15-year struggle to make it as a professional musician. Along the way he went to prison, got married, fathered five children and got divorced. Then he met his second wife Glodean and suddenly the path forward became clear. His first hit record was for his girl band, Love Unlimited. It was called Walking In The Rain With The One I Love. It was the song that made Barry White. His solo career took off after he got together with arranger, Gene Page and recorded an album called I've Got So Much To Give followed by Stone Gon' and Can't Get Enough. The albums made Barry White an international star and gave him the hit single that defined his life - You're The First, The Last, My Everything. For the next five years Barry White produced hit album after hit album for himself, Love Unlimited and the Love Unlimited Orchestra establishing him as one of the greats of music. He continued to perform around the world playing to huge audiences until his death in 2003 at the age of 58"--Provided by publisher
Am 1. Mai 1994 steht die Welt still, als Ayrton Senna, die charismatische Formel-1-Legende, tödlich verunglückt. Sein Unfall an der Tamburello-Kurve in Imola hinterlässt viele Fragen und das Gefühl, einen der besten Rennfahrer aller Zeiten verloren zu haben. Senna war nicht nur ein herausragender Athlet, sondern auch ein nachdenklicher und sensibler Mensch. Die Härte, die er im Wettkampf mit anderen Weltklasse-Piloten zeigte, wich im Privaten einer tiefen Menschlichkeit. Diese außergewöhnliche Kombination machte ihn zu einer einzigartigen Persönlichkeit im Rennsport.
In dieser Biografie wird Sennas Leben umfassend beleuchtet. Der Autor Tom Rubython hat mit großer Akribie und Nähe zu seinen Wegbegleitern ein Meisterwerk geschaffen, das nicht nur Sennas beeindruckende Leistungen auf der Rennstrecke und sein Engagement für Sicherheit und die Rechte der Rennfahrer in den Mittelpunkt stellt, sondern auch sein „normales“ Leben, sein soziales Engagement und seine Gefühlswelt thematisiert. Diese einzigartige Biografie, ergänzt durch ein Vorwort von Gerhard Berger, ist ein unverzichtbares Werk für jeden, der die Faszination und den Einfluss Ayrton Sennas verstehen möchte.
