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Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Until now, his story has never been told in a book-length biography. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue"...

On the morning of 9 February 2014, when Sam Smith woke up and saw the four statuettes he’d taken home from the previous night’s Grammy Awards Ceremony, it must have felt like a dream come true. At only twenty-two years old and coming just eight months after the US release of his debut album, In...

Probably The Best Marian Anderson Biography To Date. This book is your ultimate resource for Marian Anderson. Here you will find the most up-to-date 115 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know...

ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography! A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist Strikes affect entire communities, and in the end they need the communities’ support to succeed. This was exemplified in the legendary 1937 sit-down...

From her first appearances on the stage and screen, Maureen O'Hara (b. 1920) commanded attention with her striking beauty, radiant red hair, and impassioned portrayals of spirited heroines. Whether she was being rescued from the gallows by Charles Laughton ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939), falling...

"I messed up," Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. "These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music." During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and...

Common Sense is Not Always Common Practice as Virginie Ledoyen 's story shows. This book is your ultimate resource for Virginie Ledoyen. Here you will find the most up-to-date 45 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to...

A biography of the real-life detective who may have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha ChristieWho was the Victorian super-sleuth "Paddington" Pollaky? In fiction, he was mentioned in a Gilbert & Sullivan opera and in the bestselling biography The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. In reality,...

The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891. During this time he wrote and...

For the past 40 years original pioneers of punk The Damned have been thrilling fans across the world with their awesome, yet often unpredictable live performances and genre defining music. In 2017 The Damned are still going strong and along the way have influenced countless other bands that would...

[Benedict Cumberbatch] is an award-winning actor with a bright future. His portrayal of [Sherlock Holmes] and his role as the main antagonist in [Star Trek Into Darkness] have made him one of the biggest names in acting at the moment. Benedict [Cumberbatch]: The Biography will tell his story so far,...

The emancipationist Cassius M. Clay has long been one of Kentucky's most controversial and misunderstood figures. This new biography examines his important, though undervalued, place in history from the anti-slavery movement to his role as Lincoln's minister to Russia during the Civil War. Along the...

Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Hannibal•Cornelius Nepos biography of Hannibal from Lives of Eminent Commanders•Jacob Abbotts biography entitled Hannibal•Livys History of Rome Volume III , which discusses The Second Punic War•Polybius Histories Book III, which covers the...

For those with even a passing interest in the Second World War, the name Colin Gubbins is synonymous with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). This is not surprising as from its creation in late 1940 at Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s command ‘to set Europe ablaze’, Gubbins was the driving...