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GtrsRGr8 · 03-01-2017, 04:21 PM

I'm still having difficulty finding Whispersync deals that I consider bargains. I'm so cheap, that I don't consider $6.98 a bargain for even a Whispersync deal, even though it's much less than the "Deal of the Month" this month that Downpour touts, at $11.16 (Ack!), and the Audible audio on this particular title below ($29.95 (4.3x more expensive than the Whispersync deal!)), with neither one of which you get the ebook thrown in free, either, as you do with the Whispersync deal. Maybe I just need to get over it.

I thought that I had a pretty well-rounded education, but I confess that I don't ever remember hearing about the woman who is the subject of this book. Could be, in part, because she lived a couple of generations before me. But it sounds like she led a very intriguing life in her day. She certainly could have been a "name dropper" then--knowing J.F.K., Hitler, J. Edgar Hoover (well, at least he knew her), and who knows who else.

Readers seem to love the book. Although there aren't a terribly large number of ratings (yet), there is an adequate number to get a valid average figure, and that average is through the roof! And the ebook is a #2 or #3 seller in three Kindle store categories! I bet that it's a really great listen (and/or read).

Title: Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect.
Genre: Non-Fiction (Biography).
Author(s): Scott Farris.
Price: $6.98 ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.9 stars/18 reviews (Amazon); 4.33 (15) (GoodReads).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 5.0/1 rating.
Pages/Audio Length: 488/12 hours and 38 minutes.
Narrator(s): Scott Farris.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ok/B01LXRKLFG/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Inga-Kennedys.../dp/B01LKBW8D4.
Comments:
Book Description (Amazon):
Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy’s life, and also Adolf Hitler’s special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington columnist, an explorer who lived among a tribe of headhunters, one of Hollywood’s most influential gossip columnists, and a suspected Nazi spy. The latter nearly got Kennedy cashiered out of the Navy, but instead set in motion the chain of events that led to him becoming a war hero.

Inga lived where gossip intersects with history, and her story, as told by author Scott Farris in Inga, is a rollicking story that demonstrates how private lives influence public events. It is also a Hitchcockian tale of how difficult it can be to prove innocence when unjustly accused, and how, as Inga phrased it, what was once a halo can slip down and become a hangman’s noose.

In addition to her romance with Kennedy and the attention of Hitler, Arvad married three times — to an Egyptian diplomat who insisted they never had divorced, the brilliant filmmaker Paul Fejos whom Charlie Chaplin considered a genius, and the famed cowboy movie star Tim McCoy. She also had affairs with noted surgeon Dr. William Cahan, the prolific writer John Gunther, and Winston’s Churchill’s right hand man, Baron Robert Boothby. She was pursued by Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, and Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, reputedly the richest man in the world at the time, offered her $1 million to have his child.

Inga was Miss Denmark of 1931, but by all accounts her admirers among the European and American elite loved Inga not for her physical beauty alone, but for her joie de vivre. She was a genius with people, she was daring and adventurous, and she was their equal in intellect. Like Isak Dinesen and Clare Boothe Luce, Inga Arvad led a life that both sheds light on and defies the stereotypes of women of her time.

03-01-2017, 04:21 PM	#531
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	$6.98 WS Deal on an Ebook about a Very Intriguing Woman of the Mid 20th Century. I'm still having difficulty finding Whispersync deals that I consider bargains. I'm so cheap, that I don't consider $6.98 a bargain for even a Whispersync deal, even though it's much less than the "Deal of the Month" this month that Downpour touts, at $11.16 (Ack!), and the Audible audio on this particular title below ($29.95 (4.3x more expensive than the Whispersync deal!)), with neither one of which you get the ebook thrown in free, either, as you do with the Whispersync deal. Maybe I just need to get over it. I thought that I had a pretty well-rounded education, but I confess that I don't ever remember hearing about the woman who is the subject of this book. Could be, in part, because she lived a couple of generations before me. But it sounds like she led a very intriguing life in her day. She certainly could have been a "name dropper" then--knowing J.F.K., Hitler, J. Edgar Hoover (well, at least he knew her), and who knows who else. Readers seem to love the book. Although there aren't a terribly large number of ratings (yet), there is an adequate number to get a valid average figure, and that average is through the roof! And the ebook is a #2 or #3 seller in three Kindle store categories! I bet that it's a really great listen (and/or read). Title: *Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime Suspect. Genre:* Non-Fiction (Biography). Author(s): Scott Farris. Price: *$6.98* ($1.99 ebook (marked down) + $4.99 Whispersync audio). Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $29.95 (1 credit). Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.9 stars/18 reviews (Amazon); 4.33 (15) (GoodReads). Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 5.0/1 rating. Pages/Audio Length: 488/12 hours and 38 minutes. Narrator(s): Scott Farris. Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoi...ok/B01LXRKLFG/. Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/Inga-Kennedys.../dp/B01LKBW8D4. Comments: Book Description (Amazon): Inga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy’s life, and also Adolf Hitler’s special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington columnist, an explorer who lived among a tribe of headhunters, one of Hollywood’s most influential gossip columnists, and a suspected Nazi spy. The latter nearly got Kennedy cashiered out of the Navy, but instead set in motion the chain of events that led to him becoming a war hero. Inga lived where gossip intersects with history, and her story, as told by author Scott Farris in Inga, is a rollicking story that demonstrates how private lives influence public events. It is also a Hitchcockian tale of how difficult it can be to prove innocence when unjustly accused, and how, as Inga phrased it, what was once a halo can slip down and become a hangman’s noose. In addition to her romance with Kennedy and the attention of Hitler, Arvad married three times — to an Egyptian diplomat who insisted they never had divorced, the brilliant filmmaker Paul Fejos whom Charlie Chaplin considered a genius, and the famed cowboy movie star Tim McCoy. She also had affairs with noted surgeon Dr. William Cahan, the prolific writer John Gunther, and Winston’s Churchill’s right hand man, Baron Robert Boothby. She was pursued by Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, and Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, reputedly the richest man in the world at the time, offered her $1 million to have his child. Inga was Miss Denmark of 1931, but by all accounts her admirers among the European and American elite loved Inga not for her physical beauty alone, but for her joie de vivre. She was a genius with people, she was daring and adventurous, and she was their equal in intellect. Like Isak Dinesen and Clare Boothe Luce, Inga Arvad led a life that both sheds light on and defies the stereotypes of women of her time. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-01-2017 at 04:50 PM.