The Secret Lives of is a Historical lesson your professor never taught you, whether on international artists, authors, US presidents or First Ladies...
The classic Quirk compendium of presidential biographies is
back, revised just in time to include America's newest
commander in chief.
With presidential politics at a fever pitch these days, it's hard to
keep fact from fiction--but throughout the history of our country, our
leaders have had lives way...[more]
On the heels of Secret Lives of Great Authors, Great Artists, and Great Composers comes Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers—a look at screen legends ranging from D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin to Martin Scorcese and the Coen Brothers. Learn behind-the-scenes bios and true tawdry tales of your favorite...[more]
In the fine tradition of Secret Lives of Great Authors and Secret Lives of Great Artists comes the latest entry in Quirk’s successful series: Secret Lives of Great Composers. You’ve heard their scores in countless movies, from Fantasia to Apocalypse Now--now get the skinny on their tumultuous lives,...[more]
Learn about the artists behind all your favorite works—and the works they’ve inspired: Michelangelo had such repellant body odor that his assistants couldn’t stand working for him; Gustav Klimt allegedly fathered at least 40 illegitimate children; Pablo Picasso did jail time for ripping off several...[more]
You laughed at Secret Lives of the Presidents (80,000 net). You cried at Secret Lives of the First Ladies (25,000 net). Now it’s time to leave the history classroom and go down the hall to English 101. Here are irreverent and fun-filled bios of all the writers you were forced to read in high school...[more]
The author of Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents and Secret Lives of the First Ladies returns with another bizarre look at history’s most celebrated personalities. With Secret Lives of the Civil War, Cormac O’Brien unearths a host of strange little-known facts about Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis,...[more]
As children, we learned about the first ladies from dry, sanitized textbooks that emphasized all of history’s major milestones. But how much about these ladies do you really know? Consider: Dolley Madison loved to chew tobacco. Mary Todd Lincoln conducted seances in the White House on a regular basis....[more]
Every election year, people start to brush up on their knowledge of presidential trivia. If you still can’t tell your Tyler from your Polk, then it’s time to play Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents trivia card game! Inspired by our book SECRET LIVES OF THE U.S. PRESIDENTS (Feb. 2004), this deck...[more]