{"product_id":"9781118040034","title":"War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry","description":"\u003cb\u003eRaves for \u003ci\u003eWar Paint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The amount of research and meticulous personal data in this book is really quite remarkable and compelling. It provides a wealth of information from which to draw wonderfully three-dimensional characters and humanizes this iconic twosome.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRaquel Welch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I have seldom enjoyed a book so much as \u003ci\u003eWar Paint\u003c\/i\u003e. The research is staggering–I loved all the detail about society and the arts in Paris, New York, and London that so beautifully set our two heroines in context during such a long span of years . . . it was a wonderful read.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLulu Guinness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A compelling cosmetic portrait of the first half of the twentieth century.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So riveting that it reads like the movie that will surely be made. . . . With first-hand research and fast-paced prose, Woodhead has succeeded in turning dusty archives into high drama.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSuzy Menkes, \u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It might seem impossible to wring another drop of H2O (water is still a 90 percent base of most cosmetics), let alone humour and historical interest, out of the absurd but ever-alluring beauty business, but Lindy Woodhead has succeeded.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNicky Haslam, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These were women who were tough in business, who had a single vision–an idea of what they believed in and would do anything to get there.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBobbi Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley, John \u0026 Sons, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136319734000,"sku":"9781118040034","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118040034_p0.jpg?v=1763691889","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118040034","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}