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The Kid
The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr., comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for.
Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Enrico Caruso died nearly one hundred years ago yet his legend has continued to grow over what is almost a century. Among his greatest legacies is the hard work ethic that he used to reach the top of his profession as an operatic tenor. His son, Enrico Jr., stressed what a hard worker his father was,...
Basic Brown
My Life and Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
**To The Washington Post, he's "The Last Political Showman of the 20th Century."
Bill Clinton has called him "the real Slick Willie."
Ronald Reagan's secretary of state George Shultz called this famously liberal politician "a man of his word" and endorsed his successful candidacy for...
by Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Mary A. Turzillo
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack selects 25 more modern and classic science fiction stories, by talented authors new and old. Authors in this volume include: Mary A. Turzillo, E.C. Tubb, Murray Leinster, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jason Andrew, Henry Kuttner, Cynthia Ward, George H. Scithers...
by Roy Blount Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An eclectic collection from Roy Blount Jr., master of American humor writing
I’ll tell you what kind of book I believe in: one that makes people say, at first sight, what the first person who ever saw a camel must have said: “What in the world is that?” And then, after a while, “Yet...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino was a Mafioso closely associated with Pittsburgh mobster John La Rocca and Florida crime boss Santos Trafficante Jr. Mannarino was part owner of Havana's Sans Souci nightclub in the pre-Fidel Castro era. Based in southwestern Pennsylvania Gabriel was also involved...
by James Rada Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
More than 200 years ago, a British general and his men left Fort Cumberland heading toward Fort Duquesne. They were massacred en route and somewhere before that point, their payroll in gold was buried. The election of President James Garfield was nearly upset because of a forgery conspiracy undertaken...
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force”...
The Civil War Guerrilla
Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Most Americans are familiar with major Civil War battles such as Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Gettysburg, which have been extensively analyzed by generations of historians. However, not all of the war's engagements were fought in a conventional manner by regular forces. Often referred to as "the...
The Power of Black Music
Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1996
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition...
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
Quest for Freedom, 1939 - 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist.
The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. In this...
This Music Leaves Stains
The Complete Story of the Misfits
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief, tumultuous time together. Led by Glenn Danzig, a...
Oil Capital
The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The history of oilmen and the energy bankers who loan them capital is inextricably bound together. Energy bankers have reacted, adjusted and evolved alongside the same business cycles, regulatory changes and commodity-price gyrations that have challenged the generations of oilmen they banked. In many...
String of Pearls
On the News Beat in New York and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2001
Priscilla Buckley is probably known for her long and admired tenure as managing editor of the conservative political journal National Review, founded in the 1950s by her brother William F. Buckley Jr. But in String of Pearls we meet a different Priscilla--young Pitts Buckley, just out of Smith, eager...