Goldsmith, Barbara

Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

28 editions published between 2004 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 2,331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a male-dominated society

Little Gloria ... happy at last by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

20 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in English and Spanish and held by 1,725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The story of Glora Vanderbilt, who in 1934 was the object of a custody suit between her mother and her aunt

Other powers : the age of suffrage, spiritualism, and the scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

13 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,568 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes material on Tennessee Claflin, Henry Ward Beecher, Lib and Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Dickinson, Horace Greeley, and Anthony Comstock

Johnson v. Johnson by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

7 editions published between 1987 and 1992 in English and Polish and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With the extraordinary investigative acumen and sensitive narrative skills that informed her best-selling Little Gloria ... Happy at Last, Barbara Goldsmith now gives us the most sensational case of a contested will in American history'weaving a hypnotic tale of vast wealth and moral corruption. When J. Seward Johnson, the pharmaceutical heir, died in 1983 at the age of eighty-seven, his six children (each of whom was already in possession of an immense fortune) were outraged to learn that he had willed his entire $500-million estate to their stepmother Basia'a woman forty-two years Seward's junior, a Polish refugee who had once worked as a chambermaid in his household. They came to believe that Basia had used undue influence to "enchant" their father, prying his fortune away from him and turning him against his own children. They wanted "justice." The legal battle that followed spawned a seventeen-week-long trial, the involvement of 210 lawyers (some of whose behavior was legally and ethically questionable), $24 million in legal fees, and public disclosures of the often scandalous details of the lives of many of the parties involved, including attempted suicide, drug addiction, and accusations of a murder plot. Going beyond the courtroom itself, Goldsmith delves into the family's past and present, demonstrating that, from the start, the poisonous effects of overwhelming wealth were a tacit but powerfully felt subtext to the proceedings. From her insider's position, she reveals the true Johnson legacy'one of profound emotional damage. In their own voices Seward's children, his first wife, relatives, friends, employees, and Basia herself express their thoughts and feelings with a startling degree of frankness, revealing a past of incest, malignant neglect, and betrayal. Through this deepening of the story, Goldsmith has been able to elucidate the profoundly complex reasons why each of the Johnsons believed that what was most emphatically at stake was not financial remuneration but emotional reparation. Throughout the four-month trial, Goldsmith (who researched the case for over a year and examined thousands of pages of documentation) was in constant attendance, and she tells the dramatic story of what occurred in spellbinding detail. We see the contesting parties, their innumerable lawyers, and the trial's remarkable judge, Marie Lambert ("part Portia, part Tugboat Annie"), playing out their roles in a courtroom packed with press and spectators, and rife with animosity, mistrust, and uncontrolled emotions (which erupted into a near-riot and death threats against the judge). Goldsmith illuminates how and why, as the trial progressed, it was transmuted almost entirely into a battle among lawyers, about lawyers, and for lawyers. She provides a masterful and devastating indictment of American law and lawyers, seen here as an out-of-control juggernaut fueled by a seemingly inexhaustible supply of money. Family drama, courtroom drama, explosive psychological drama, a trenchant and sometimes shocking portrayal of lawyers at work today'Johnson v. Johnson is a brilliant synthesis of the legal, the social, and the human aspects of a society in disarray

The straw man by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

5 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Other powers : the age of suffrage, spiritualism, and the scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

5 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories." A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers interviews the stories of some of the most colorful social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull--psychic, suffragette, publisher, presidential candidate, and self-confessed practitioner of free love. It is set amid the battle for women's suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle for the right to vote. Peter Gay found Other Powers "Irresistible ... this is a biography guaranteed to keep the reader reading." And Gloria Steinem called it "A real-life novel of how one charismatic woman ... turned women's suffrage, the church, New York City, and much of the country on its ear."

Marie Curie : die erste Frau der Wissenschaft by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

9 editions published between 2010 and 2017 in German and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eine aktuelle, auf fundierten Recherchen basierende Biografie, in der nicht nur Leben und Werk, sondern auch die Persönlichkeit der weltberühmten Wissenschaftlerin Marie Curie eindrucksvoll beschrieben werden

Pian zhi de tian cai : nu ren, ke xue jia, Ju li fu ren by Gao Shi Mi Si( Book )

1 edition published in 2006 in Chinese and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Geniusz i obsesja : wewnętrzny świat Marii Curie by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

9 editions published between 2005 and 2016 in Polish and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Genio obsesivo : el mundo interior de Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

3 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in Spanish and Portuguese and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide