Goldsmith, Barbara

Overview

Works:	37 works in 118 publications in 10 languages and 7,269 library holdings
Genres:	Biography History Fiction
Roles:	Author, Author of introduction
Classifications:	QD22.C8, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Barbara Goldsmith

[Barbara Goldsmith talks about the Newport society of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers in the years between 1890 and 1913] by Barbara Goldsmith( Recording )

Most widely held works by Barbara Goldsmith

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

18 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 2,288 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 )

17 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in English and held by 1,761 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 )

17 editions published between 1998 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,755 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 )

3 editions published between 1987 and 1988 in English and held by 833 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 )

4 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

6 editions published between 2010 and 2016 in German and held by 60 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

Marie Curie : portrait intime d'une femme d'exception by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

4 editions published in 2006 in French and held by 60 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pian zhi de tian cai : nu ren, ke xue jia, Ju li fu ren by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

2 editions published in 2006 in Chinese and held by 30 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 )

2 editions published in 2005 in Spanish and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Genio ossessivo : il mondo interiore di Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

3 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La pequeña Gloria ... feliz al fin : la batalla por Gloria Vanderbilt by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

3 editions published between 1980 and 1983 in Spanish and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fortuna Johnsonów by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

3 editions published in 1992 in Polish and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La famille royale d'Amérique : une dynastie de femmes by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

2 editions published in 1982 in French and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Obsessive genius : Marie Curie, a life in science by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

2 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tramp art : another notch, folk art from the heart by Clifford A Wallach( Book )

1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Madame Curie : Saplantılı deha by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

2 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in Turkish and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Largo (from winter from the four seasons) : score & parts by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Marī kyurī : Furasuko no naka no yami to hikari( Book )

1 edition published in 2007 in Japanese and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hawas al-ʻabqarı̄yah : al-ḥayat al-sirı̄yah limārı̄ kūrı̄ by Barbara Goldsmith( Book )

1 edition published in 2009 in Arabic and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Om den franske fysiker Marie Curie (1867-1934)