Raging Heart, Sheila Weller
Raging Heart, Sheila Weller
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Raging Heart
The Intimate Story of the Tragic Marriage of O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson

Author: Sheila Weller

Narrator: Rodney Saulsberry

Abridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/1995


Synopsis

A tumultuous story of love, obsession, provocation, and violence that featured in “ Trial of the Century.” Here is the intimate untold story of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson's tragic, turbulent marriage. Author Sheila Weller was granted unprecedented cooperation by Nicole's family and exclusive access to friends who revealed private information about the couple. Raging Heart is filled with gripping revelations and shocking scenes from the lives of the dangerously romantic couple— Nicole, the beautiful, devoted wife and mother, and O.J., the charismatic football legend whose dark side was ignored by his worshipping buddies.

Author Bio

Sheila Weller is the senior contributing editor at Glamour, writes on social history for Vanity Fair, was a contributing editor at New York, and has written for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Redbook, Ms., and the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of six books—two of which are New York Times bestsellers: Dancing at Ciro's, a family memoir, and Marrying the Hangman, which is about the 1987 New York murder of Harpers assistant and fiction writer Diane Whitmore Pikul. Her 1995 account of the marriage of O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson, Raging Heart, gave the case a major prosecution witness, was entered into the trial, and was at the top of the national news upon its publication. And her lauded Saint of Circumstance revealed five additional victims of "preppy rapist" Alex Kelly. For her magazine work, Weller is the winner of six New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Awards. She also won a 2006 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus and a third place award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her reporting in Mississippi, for Glamour, on the fortieth anniversary of the Schwerner-Chaney-Goodman murders.

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