Nick Dawson: 3 books
Being Hal Ashby
Life of a Hollywood Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Hal Ashby (1929--1988) was always an outsider, and as a director he brought an outsider's perspective to Hollywood cinema. After moving to California from a Mormon household in Utah, he created eccentric films that reflected the uncertain social climate of the 1970s. Whether it is his enduring cult...
by Philip B. Bedient, James B. Blackburn Jr., Shannon S. Van Zandt
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...
by James Dawson, Nick Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
A rare chronicle of daily life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1847-1951 “So rare, so historically valuable - - -The only daily account of its kind in the state.” –Brice Stump, Salisbury (Maryland) Daily Times “Unique among farm journals….a wide range of observations” –Edward C. Papenfuse,...