Americas category: 34066 books
by Bernard A. Weisberger
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a colossal figure. By wise investment, shrewd manipulation, and the use of his fists, he died the wealthiest man in the United States. His life was an epic of the steam age. Here, in this short-form book by historian Bernard A. Weisberger, is his extraordinary story.
Rosengren's Books
An Oasis for Mind and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Virtually every San Antonio citizen over a certain age with any interest in literature will have vivid memories of Rosengren’s Books. It was the absolute center of literary culture not only in San Antonio, but in Texas, for decades. Indeed, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Rosengren’s Books was considered...
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s.
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one...
Sinatra
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Packed with revelations, this is the first complete account of a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower--and criminal connections. Anthony Summers--bestselling author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe--and Robbyn Swan unveil stunning new information about Sinatra’s links to the...
Chasing the Light
The Cloud Cult Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“Cloud Cult’s grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human.” —Pitchfork During the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with...
Wasn't That a Time
The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway
Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't...
by Lara Greene
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By his untimely death at 34, Elliot Smith had contributed more to the indie music scene then almost any artist. Despite all he contributed, there is little known about him. This book examines his life, his music, his death, and his legacy.
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The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air
Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Millions of Texans and Southwesterners have been touched over the years by the Light Crust Doughboys. From 1930 to 1952, fans faithfully tuned in to their early-morning and, later, noontime radio program, and turned out in droves to hear them play live. The Doughboys embodied the very essence of the...
Wicked Messenger
Bob Dylan and the 1960s; Chimes of Freedom, revised and expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Bob Dylan’s abrupt abandonment of overtly political songwriting in the mid-1960s caused an uproar among critics and fans. In Wicked Messenger, acclaimed cultural-political commentator Mike Marqusee advances the new thesis that Dylan did not drop politics from his songs but changed the manner of...
Doc
The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz itself.
Doc tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his...
Tango
Una pasión ilustrada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El tango se desplegó en el centro de una sociedad específica compuesta por una masa de inmigrantes que se aglomeraba en los conventillos porteños. Fue tomando diferentes medios de expresión: la música, la canción y la danza, sin letras en sus comienzos, pero enunciando un importante número...
by Rees Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - artist, entrepreneur, innovator, filmmaker, and theme-park impresario - gave birth to a sprawling entertainment enterprise that, in the half-century since his death in 1966, remains a fixture in the culture unlike any other. A titan of the American Century, Walt...
Fireball
Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This expanded edition features newly uncovered information regarding Carole Lomard's bond-selling appearance in Indianapolis, the 2014 discovery of a plane crash victim's body at the Carole Lombard crash site, and an additional 16 pages of photographs. Taking a fresh look at Hollywood's "Queen...
American Gothic
The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family—Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A New York Times–bestselling author’s “lively” account of a family of famous actors—who became notorious after the assassination of President Lincoln (The New Yorker).
Junius Booth and his sons, Edwin and John Wilkes, were nineteenth-century America’s most famous theatrical family....