From the author of the "deliriously fast paced and erudite" (Library Journal) THREE MARTINI AFTERNOONS AT THE RITZ comes an examination of the legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy in Hollywood.

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period.

An intensely religious man—a self-styled Puritan Moses—he fervently be...