Gene: 1036 books
Black Bottom Stomp
Eight Masters of Ragtime and Early Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.
by Gene M. Corrado
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
"The hysterical confessions of two drunken DJs who performed over 600 jobs in the New York/ New Jersey area between 1982 and 2009. Exploits include Brides behaving badly, drunken police and fireman, catering halls struck by lightning, family members fighting and breaking things. Halloween parties...
Spreadin' Rhythm Around
Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 is a classic work on a little-studied subject in American music history: the contribution of African-American songwriters to the world of popular song. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "thoroughly researched and entertainingly written,"...
Bury My Heart at Cooperstown
Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
An entertaining look at how a number of baseball players have left fthe game all too soon, this book covers murders, suicides, accidents and bizarre mishaps, deaths by alcoholism, and even deaths by sexually transmitted diseases. The ever amusing and interesting stories include James Phelps, who made...
An Innocent Man the Life and Times of an American Baby Boomer
Part 1 from the Beginnings Through the 1960S
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Come travel back to a different but vaguely familiar world. Journey to a time when inflation barely existed, gasoline was cheap, cars had big gas-guzzling engines, and people almost never locked their front doors. Written in the first person, An Innocent Man follows the life and time of Edgar Rice...
by Gene H. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Biography of jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s
A Biographical Dictionary, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema’s greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns...
Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti
The Only Up-to-Date Book on the Late "Teflon Don"
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
John Gotti is terminally ill; when he passes on to that great Mafia in the sky, co-author Capeci will be in great demand for interviews and will the plug the book. As he battles terminal cancer in a federal prison in Illinois, John Gotti, still the acting head of the Gambino Mafia family, is constantly...
The Annotated Secessionist Papers
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
A collection of essays, articles and papers that discuss secession from a legal, constitutional and historical perspective.
My Horse Got a Flat
Stories, Tales, and Lies from a Modern Cowboy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003
Have you ever had a herd of cattle evolve before your very eyes from herbivores to carnivores during calving season? Have you experienced the thrill of having your left arm and right leg completely entangled in a lariat during a run of feedlot roping? Do you know how long a piece of PVC pipe should...
by Gene Woodwick, Brian Woodwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Grays Harbor reigned supreme as the �Logging Capital of the World� for 150 years. Homesteaders became loggers and hired local Indians, who had logged the area�s massive trees since ancient times. Sailors, too, were hired to rig spar trees. They fearlessly plied lumber schooners across destructive...
Cct-The Eye of the Storm
Volume Ii – the Gwot Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Almost as soon as the second hijacked 767 struck the south tower of the world trade center, Air Force Combat Controllers began to report to their bases and pack their gear. Spread around the world in special tactics squadrons, these airmen would provide the lightly armed U.S. Army Special Forces teams...
Rolling Thunder Against the Rising Sun
The Combat History of U.S. Army Tank Battalions in the Pacific in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
First work dedicated solely to the use of Army tanks in the Pacific Theater. Covers armor battles in the Philippines, Makin, the Solomons, Rabaul, New Guinea, Saipan, Guam, and Okinawa.