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LIFE Legends: The Century's Most Unforgettable Faces (Life Magazine) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Killian Jordan
Publisher: Life
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 798991
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0821225049
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.2
EAN: 9780821225042
ASIN: 0821225049
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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 legends: an unforgettable read with great pictures June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are fascinated with celebrities and love big, splashy coffee house books with wonderful pictures of larger than life celebrities from Harry Houdini and Valentino to Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, then you will love this book. It's basically a picture book that shows which celebrities are considered to be legends by Time Magazine. Some of them are readily apparent such as Judy Garland, Michael Jackson and James Dean. Other legends are people that most Americans are not as familiar with, such as Josephine Baker, Edith Piaf and Isadora Duncan but the pictures make the story. After reading this book, including quotes from other famous people, you'll want to know more about these fascinating characters. A must read!
 Best to share with a friend February 5, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Legends is an art book; displaying noted celebrities from the past century. It is a fun read, but more of a coffee table book for the star and starlet buff. The photographs are good, taking from nearly a full page to even double page spreads, but it is the captions that go with them that had the most appeal to me. Some photos are themselves famous, while others show well-known people in their not so-well-known lives. The captions are comments about the subject, often by their peers but occasionally by themselves. Not only does this give you a new insight to the person photographed, but to the speaker as well. I particularly liked the examples where person A comments on person B only to find elsewhere in the book person B commenting on person A! A lady friend of mine, who has this book, tore the full-page picture of Katharine Hepburn and the accommodating full-page caption with it. The caption quoted Hepburn on how she lived her life: " . . . I've just done what I D___ well wanted to . . . " My friend hung these up in her apartment to inspire herself.
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