Goldsmith, Barbara
Overview
Works: | 40 works in 134 publications in 12 languages and 7,104 library holdings |
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Genres: | Biography History Educational films Internet videos Biographies Interviews Fiction |
Roles: | Author, Author of introduction |
Classifications: | QD22.C8, B |
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Most widely held works about
Barbara Goldsmith
- Barbara Goldsmith by Barbara Goldsmith( Recording )
- [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(
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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
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(
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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
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(
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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
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(
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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
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(
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5 editions published between 1975 and 1976 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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(
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)
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."
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(
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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
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(
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1 edition published in 2006 in Chinese and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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(
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9 editions published between 2005 and 2016 in Polish and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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(
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3 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in Spanish and Portuguese and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in Spanish and Portuguese and held by 17 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Genio ossessivo : il mondo interiore di Marie Curie by
Barbara Goldsmith(
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3 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2006 in Italian and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La famille royale d'Amérique : une dynastie de femmes by
Barbara Goldsmith(
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2 editions published in 1982 in French and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1982 in French and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pian zhi de tian cai : nü ren, ke xue jia, Juli fu ren by
Barbara Goldsmith(
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1 edition published in 2006 in Chinese and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2006 in Chinese and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Other Powers by
Barbara Goldsmith(
Book
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2 editions published in 1998 in Undetermined and English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The age of Suffrage, spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
2 editions published in 1998 in Undetermined and English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The age of Suffrage, spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
The People's Palace(
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Documentary on The New York Public Library, which examines the institution's history and cultural impact. While the emphasis is on the main branch of the library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, the film also examines two of the NYPL's research centers, the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, and Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, as well as the city's branch library system. Includes excerpts from interviews with library administrators, board members, and advocates from the world of literature and the performing arts
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Documentary on The New York Public Library, which examines the institution's history and cultural impact. While the emphasis is on the main branch of the library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, the film also examines two of the NYPL's research centers, the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, and Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, as well as the city's branch library system. Includes excerpts from interviews with library administrators, board members, and advocates from the world of literature and the performing arts
Obsessive genius : Marie Curie, a life in science by
Barbara Goldsmith(
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tramp art : another notch, folk art from the heart by
Clifford A Wallach(
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie by
Barbara Goldsmith(
Recording
)
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The myth of Marie Curie--the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer--has obscured the ... truth behind her discoveries. Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements. While her work won her two Nobel Prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. In[this book we] discover the woman ... an all-too-human woman trying to balance a spectacular scientific career with the obligations of family, the prejudice of society, the constant search for adequate funding, and the battle for recognition.-Dust jacket
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The myth of Marie Curie--the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer--has obscured the ... truth behind her discoveries. Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be used to discover new elements. While her work won her two Nobel Prizes and transformed our world, it did not liberate her from the prejudices of either the male-dominated scientific community or society. In[this book we] discover the woman ... an all-too-human woman trying to balance a spectacular scientific career with the obligations of family, the prejudice of society, the constant search for adequate funding, and the battle for recognition.-Dust jacket
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Barbara Goldsmith(
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1 edition published in 2005 in Hebrew and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2005 in Hebrew and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Marī kyurī : Furasuko no naka no yami to hikari(
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1 edition published in 2007 in Japanese and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2007 in Japanese and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Artists Astor, Brooke Belafonte, Harry, Blass, Bill Chemists Clairvoyants Curie, Marie, Dodson, Howard Fasana, Paul J., Fast, Howard, Feminists Folk art France Goldsmith, Barbara Harper, Conrad K Healy, Timothy S.--(Timothy Stafford) Heiskell, Andrew, Johnson, J. Seward, Joliot-Curie, Irène, Langevin-Joliot, Hélène, Libraries Libraries--Special collections Marx, Robert Mass media--Study and teaching Morrison, Toni New York (State) New York (State)--New York New York Public Library New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Poland Politicians Prince, Harold, Probate law and practice Radioactivity Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Spiritualists Study skills Suffragists Tramp art United States Vanderbilt, Gloria, Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan, Vanderbilt family Wills Wolfe, Tom Women chemists Women politicians Women--Suffrage Wood-carving Woodhull, Victoria C.--(Victoria Claflin),
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Barbara Goldsmith American journalist
Barbara Goldsmith Amerikaans essayiste
Barbara Goldsmith journaliste américaine
Barbara Goldsmith periodista estadounidense
Barbara Goldsmith scrittrice, saggista e filantropa statunitense
Goldsmit, Barbara
Lubin, Barbara Joan
גולדסמית, ברברה
باربارا جولدسميث صحفية أمريكية
باربارا قلدسمیت
골드스미스, 바바라
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