Amanda Foreman, who recently published A WORLD ON FIRE, has been accused of posing nude. ..She happens to have five kiddos under age 10.
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C-SPAN showed Eric Foner, of Columbia Univ, interviewing Ms. Foreman -- a program I've seen three times since I am a captive audience as I sit here working on my book.
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Amanda Foreman received a "PhD" from Oxford in "the biography" after studying slavery since high school. ..Her A WORLD ON FIRE, ON BRITISH INVOLVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR is being made into a 6-part mini-series by the BBC & HBO. ..And by he way, her first book was made into a movie.
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When she said that her next book will be about the involvement of countries around the world in the American Civil War, Foner quickly said that American scholars have wanted to write such a book but they don't have the language skills.
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Amanda's screen writer dad was blacklisted during the early 1950s, went to England and had a second family then moved back to USA, where Amanda went to school. ..I'm reminded of Danielle Steele who wrote best-selling romance novels as she had eight kiddos, but Amanda is writing about history which entails years of study.
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Posing nude. ..She posed behind a stack of her books for a promotional photo. ..Love it.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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