James Spada

'Russian Textiles' showcases printed-cotton textiles created and manufactured in Russia and exported to Central Asia from around 1860 to 1960. More than 175 patterns spanning a variety of different styles, from Art Nouveau florals to Soviet-era agitprop, are featured.

A pictorial tour of four generations of the Bush family features photographs of the former president and his immediate family as well as family members from prior generations, in a tribute complemented by researched captions.

"Researched and written by a journalist who has known his subject for more than three decades and featuring a wealth of photographs, documents, artifacts, and recordings - some never before published - from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio is a revealing look at both the private and public life of America's most popular president."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes material on Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and the Kennedys.

A truly wonderful, fact-filled book, dealing with the relationship between a mother and daughter, who just happened to be the superstars of their generations. I've kept this book all these years, having been published originally in 1983, and occasionally pull it from the shelf, relax and peruse its pictures and chapters.

YES, yet another book about MM. At ast this one is quite unpretentious, unlike, for example, Norman Mailer's effort in that direction. It is just what it says: a pictorial biography with the salient facts and a few choice comments embodied entirely in the captions. Not only does the text keep plugging the film-star's extraordinary lack of privacy (at any rate in those days of frenzied fan worship), but the pictures bear this out in detail. Hardly a moment, however intimate, of poor Marilyn's life seems to have gone unsnapped by some photographer somewhere. Few lives can be chronicled this way in such exhaustive detail. The book does not even go in for the usual padding of film-stills: there cannot be more than half-a-dozen pictures taken straight from a Monroe movie in the whole volume. J.R.T.

A biography of the singer/director/actress Barbra Streisand, based on more than 200 interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues.

Associates and friends talk about the "real" Streisand.

Describes the marriage and career of a popular singing duo.