Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+3448+7498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715313 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738973 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738933 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668887 Henry Fondas performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define American in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. McKinneys Fonda is dark, complex, fascinating, and a product of glamour and acclaim, early losses, and Midwestern demons--a man haunted by what hed seen and who he was. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664082 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738964 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738974 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738934 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694353 Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. In this book, Dr. Davis looks at the health-care crisis in the inner city from a rare perspective: that of a doctor who works on the front line of emergency medical care in the community where he grew up and as a member of that community who has faced the same challenges as the people he treats every day. He also offers invaluable practical advice for those living in such communities, where conditions like asthma, heart disease, strokes, obesity, and AIDS are disproportionately endemic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738935 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715318 A former Marine describes his efforts to prepare himself for extreme disaster scenarios, from learning emergency medicine and wilderness survival skills to navigating clogged evacuation routes and mastering a variety of defensive weapons. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713063 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715299 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715289 Examines the colorful lives and careers of the leaders of the Wild Bunch, who always managed to escape unscathed from their criminal exploits until new twentieth-century inventions and crime-fighting techniques caught up with them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713062 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715298 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713028 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667859 The popular television star recounts the year he spent teaching at Philadelphias largest high school, the challenges he encountered in keeping students engaged, and his memories of posing disciplinary challenges to his own instructors as a teenager. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668885 Presents a memoir of the authors long-time work with San Franciscos homeless while sharing a call for more effective action. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667863 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667870 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668268 Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, and it shocked the public and forced the government to take action--despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667902 With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician Marco Roth was able to share his parents New York, a world. That world ended when his father started to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s. What this family could not talk about for years came to dominate the lives of its surviving members, often in unexpected ways. The Scientists is a story of how we first learn from our parents and how we then learn to see them as separate individuals; its a story of how growing up quickly can slow us down when it comes to knowing about our desires. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694453 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682423 In My Message is C.L.E.A.R., join Gabe Murfitt as he shares his story of learning to live in a uniquely formed body. Through Gabes C.L.E.A.R. formula, you will discover how you can have: Courage to face lifes challenges; Leadership that is encouraging and compassionate; Endurance in hard times; Attitude that enables you to achieve your goals; Respect for others and yourself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668462 Mohammed Ashraf studied biology and then became a butcher, a tailor, and an electricians apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of Old Delhi. How did he end up this way? In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings Ashraf and his indelible group of friends to life through their adventures and misfortunes in the Old Delhi railway station, the harrowing wards of a tuberculosis hospital, an illegal bar made of cardboard and plywood, and then into Beggars Court and back onto the streets. In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the worlds largest cities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538002 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668241 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673235 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667684 The first biography of the renowned American author David Foster Wallace. Wallace was on of the most innovative and influential authors of the last twenty-five years. A writer whose distinctive style and example had a huge impact on the culture and helped give meaning to his generation in a disorienting, distressing time. In this first in-depth biography, journalist D.T. Max captures Wallaces compelling, turbulent life and times--his genius, his struggle to stay sane and happy in a difficult world, his anxiety and loneliness--as well as why he mattered as a writer and a human being-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674919 In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement, and now, after the sudden death of her husband, Richard Holbrooke, it offers a chance for a fresh beginning. With intimate and nuanced portraits of Peter Jennings, the man to whom she was married for fifteen years and with whom she had two children, and Richard, with whom she found enduring love, Marton paints a vivid account of an adventuresome life in the stream of history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682398 James C. Humes reveals the astonishingly accurate predictions of Britains most famous prime minister and how his critics perceptions of them shaped his political career. Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years in advance? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did. Here, Humes reveals these and other shocking predictions made by this legendary figure. Churchill didnt need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past and accurately foretold the rise of a Hitler-like figure and the year the Iron Curtain would fall. He even predicted the exact day of his own death. In fascinating detail, this astonishing biography documents the spot-on prophecies Churchill foretold and the political consequences he endured for sharing them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696037 A gripping adventure of the body and mind, To the Last Breath depicts in crystal-clear prose the quest that led Francis Slakey around the globe, challenged his fiercely held beliefs, and opened his heart. Expanding his tale with riveting science and arresting insight into our relation to the Earth and one another, the author takes readers across the plateaus of Tibet, into the heat of Tanzania, to the desolate edge of the Arctic, and beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682432 Christine Benvenuto had been married for more than twenty years--with three young children--when her husband turned to her one night in bed and said Im thinking constantly about my gender. Unhappy in his body, he wanted to become a woman. Part memoir, part voyeurs look into a marriage, Sex Changes is a journey through the end of a marriage and out the other side. We see a mother, desperate to save her family and shelter her children, discover a well of strength and resilience she never knew she had. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679170 A memoir from the former child actress and veteran journalist describes the pride, pressure, and cruelty she felt from her ambitious stage mother while working as part of the cast of Little House on the Prairie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674768 The highest-grossing non-English-language film of all time, Intouchables reveals the life of a charismatic con man, Abdl Sellou (played by the award-winning actor Omar Sy), whose friendship with a disabled French aristocrat, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, inspired the record-breaking hit movie. You Changed My Life is Abdel Sellous memoir of growing up on the streets of Pris as a cheeky young Algerian immigrant, honing his talents as a petty thief and scam artist before meeting the man who would forever change his life, as Abdel would change his. In 1993, Count Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wifes being diagnosed with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Philippes unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer by developing an unswerving loyalty - and orchestrating more than a few adventures - that help restore Philippes appetite for life. The story of Abdels friendship with Philippe has already touched the hearts of millions. Now his personal story of transformation from a kid who cares for no one to the person he is today will affect many more-- Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538001 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523264 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674340 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1537972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667891 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682408 Along with Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, and Francois Mitterand, Jacques Chirac is one of the most iconic statesmen of the twentieth century. Two-time president of France, mayor of Paris, and international politician, a recent poll voted him the most admired political figure in France, with current president Nicolas Sarkozy ranking in 32nd place. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694459 He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. In this masterful biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams to be a towering figure in the nations formative years and one of the most courageous figures in American history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674767 A profile of the iconic authors early years offers insight into his efforts to bridge his dual cultural heritage while exploring how his French Canadian background enriched his prose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712091 Some see travel as a form of light-hearted escapism while others believe it has the power to open ones mind, forcing one to confront their demons and discover their true self. Andrew McCarthy details his excursions around the world. He ponders his personal life, his acting career, and his impulse to leave home, all building toward one of the most significant moments of his life: His wedding day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1586785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694340 James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madisons role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, his place in the evolution of the party system, his relationship with Dolley Madison, his performance as a wartime commander-in-chief, and his views on slavery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538026 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629226 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715259 Chronicles Abraham Lincolns success at turning the Civil War to the Norths favor during the year of 1862. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682426 The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhowers inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed and to this day the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The worlds most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for historys favor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629205 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693071 Just shy of seventy, Alex Witchels brilliant, adoring, ultra-capable college professor mother began to exhibit undeniable signs of dementia. She became forgetful and easily agitated. She gave the same lecture twice, and was forced to retire. How did her brilliant, adoring, ultra-capable, ace reporter daughter cope? At first with denial: If something was broken, well, with the best medical help money could buy they would figure out how to fix it, and restore Mom to all her former sharpness and glory. Even as medical reality undid that hope, the habit of longing persisted in its most primal form: As my mother began the torturous process of disappearing in plain sight, I retreated to my kitchen, trying to reclaim her at the stove. Is there any contract tighter than a family recipe? While reproducing the perfect meatloaf was no panacea, it helped Alex to come to terms with her predicament, the increasingly common phenomenon of ambiguous loss, loss of a beloved one who lives on. Gradually she developed a deeper appreciation for all the ways the parent she was losing lived on in her. Her mothers discipline, love of truth, and before-her-time independence, along with her top two Commandments, May you be brilliant and Tell me everything that happened today, were destined to breed a crack journalist. Alex came to see, the boundless hope and love with which she was raised allowed her to become a loving wife and stepmother, transcending the essential loneliness that her mother, crippled both physically and emotionally in childhood, never quite shed. When grief and helplessness became overwhelming, it was her mother, her steel-trap mind grasping just how it was coming undone, who helped her to accept the inevitable. Theres nothing you can do because its not up to you, she would say. Youre here with me now. Thats enough. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274599 One of Americas great chefs (Vogue) shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown--and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297840 A Harvard-educated Palestinian physician who was raised in a Gaza Strip refugee camp recounts the 2009 bombing attack that killed his daughters, describing how he has cared for patients on both sides of the conflict and won awards for humanitarian acts urging peaceful resolutions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376434 In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511093 Presents the authors diary accounts of the week he, an assistant on the set of the movie The Prince and the Showgirl, bonded with Marilyn Monroe after she escaped the high-pressure set and toured the English countryside with him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296088 In this funny and thoughtful guide to a romanticized version of the American expansion west, childrens book editor and memoirist McClure (Im Not the New Me) attempts to recapture her childhood vision of Laura World (i.e., the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books about an 1880s pioneer family). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364980 Spanning 500 years of British history, Behind the Palace Doors is a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the worlds most engaging royal historians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376448 Between a Rock and a Hard Place meets Into the Void in this harrowing account of a terrible mountaineering accident and one mans amazing escape from a hellish fall--a second-by-second retelling of tragedy, survival, and renewal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306766 Frank Brady chronicles the brilliant yet troubled life of iconic chess master Bobby Fischer. An enigmatic genius, Fischer is best remembered for defeating Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky in 1972. However, the victory was overshadowed by the exorbitant demands Fischer made before the match and is subsequent decent into irrelevance. A rematch with Spassky in 1992 put Fischer back in the spotlight, but also got him into trouble with the American government. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306839 In a moving and inspiring memoir told with genuine humility, Eric Greitens offers something new in the history of military memoirs. A warrior who wanted to be strong to be good, only to discover that he had to be good to be strong. Throughout his SEAL training and deployments in Kenya, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the lessons of his humanitarian work bore fruit. The result is a lesson for all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1305453 While in prison with his father, Frank Calabrese Sr., on racketeering charges, Frank Jr, a former member of the Chicago crime syndicate known as the Outfit, offered to help the FBI keep his father in prison for life by testifying against him. Now in the federal witness protection program and living in an undisclosed location, Frank Jr. gives an insiders view of the Outfit and how he helped expose its crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392334 Roger Ebert has been reviewing films since 1967. The first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, he has been a fixture on television for over 30 years. Then, complications from thyroid-cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365391 Written in the wake of the death of celebrated novelist Francisco Goldmans beloved wife, Aura Estrada, Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would have been. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306763 In the tradition of Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and complex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1275043 The actor examines his life in Hollywood, looking at both his professional and private life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1254793 In a follow-up to his first two books, veterinarian Nick Trout offers a funny, moving, and thoughtful memoir about the animals hes had all his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392761 A Year and Six Seconds is the true story of New York Times bestselling memoirist Isabel Gilliess valiant yet bumbling efforts to pick herself up after her husband leaves her for another woman--and of how she stumbles upon true love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279580 Author Kenneth Slawenski reveals the story of the life of J. D. Salinger, one of the most popular and mysterious figures in American literary history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279549 In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of navy SEALs and Special Forces snipers. After training, Desert Storm, and the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, Wasdin graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country, eventually becoming one of the best snipers on the planet. A few months later, he was fighting for his life. The Battle of Mogadishu left eighteen American soldiers dead and seventy-three wounded; Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off. His explosive combat tales and inside details of becoming one of the worlds deadliest snipers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310282 Set in Provence, London, and New York, this is a daughters evocative and witty memoir of her mother and stepfather--Dee Wells, a glamorous and rebellious American journalist, and A. J. Ayer, the celebrated Oxford philosopher--and the life they lived at the center of absolutely everything. Gully Wells takes us into the heart of Londons liberated intellectual inner circle of the 1960s, with Alan Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Bertrand Russell, and others, then in New York, Mayor Lindsay, Mike Tyson, her mother as an outspoken and progressive television commentator, her stepfather--an icon in the world of twentieth-century philosophy--proving himself as prodigious a womanizer as he was a thinker. Throughout, there is La Migoua, the house in France, where her parents and their friends came together and where Gully learned some long-lasting lessons of a life well lived. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364973 The intimate, inside story of the life of bestselling author Stieg Larsson, written by his lifelong companion, Eva Gabrielsson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376447 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro shares hilarious tales of marriage and family with irresistible candor that makes for a laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable listen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1267277 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274596 The premier biographer of the British royal family presents the updated inside story of the romance that has made headlines the world over--just in time for the royal wedding. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306787 After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed--or killing someone else--or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldnt have been more stark--or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279564 In this often violent but always introspective memoir, Mobb Deeps Prodigy tells his much-anticipated story of struggle, survival, and hope on the mean streets of New York City. For the first time, he gives an intimate look at his family background, battles with drugs, life of crime, relentless suffering with sickle-cell anemia, and more. Recently released after serving three and a half years in state prison due to what many consider an unlawful arrest, Prodigy is ready to talk about his life as one of raps greatest legends. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306739 Ice-T offers his hip-hop generations Horatio Alger story: the narrative of an orphaned child who, drawn inexorably into a harrowing life of crime, ultimately turns away from the streets and, through self-discipline and a single-minded work ethic, forges a path to international fame as a musician and film and television star. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392318 Beloved former MIT professor Walter Lewin takes listeners on an accessible, fun, and eye-opening journey through the world of physics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1377731 Traces the authors longtime friendship and love affair with John F. Kennedy, Jr., describing their prep-school antics and shared stage productions before entering into a love affair that ended when Kennedy decided he was not ready to settle down.