Broadway Books imprint: 808 books
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Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
“An engaging, humorous, revealing, and refreshingly human look at the bizarre, life-threatening, and delightfully humdrum exploits of everyone from sports heroes to sex workers.”
-- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Coercion, Ecstasy Club, and Media Virus
This wide-ranging survey of the American...
The Man Who Owns the News
Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
From the author of Fire and Fury, this irresistible account offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale—and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.
If Rupert Murdoch isn’t making headlines,...
Ponzi
The Incredible True Story of the King of Financial Cons
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Just who was the man whose name has become synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam in which money from new investors is used to reward earlier ones? In December 1919, he was an unknown thirty-eight-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with a borrowed two-hundred dollars...
Citizen Hughes
The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man portrayed in the Movie THE AVIATOR
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and pilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling exposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation...
Widow Basquiat
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together
New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art...
Lady Sings the Blues
The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir, updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David...
Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great...
I Got Your Back
A Father and Son Keep It Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
The final collaboration from Eddie and Gerald Levert: an intimate glimpse into their lives, their passions, and their musical legacy. But most important, I Got Your Back gets inside the special and rare father-son bond that these two R&B legends shared. Eddie and Gerald put their hearts and souls...
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“The girl with Bob Dylan on the cover of Freewheelin’ broke a forty-five-year silence with this affectionate and dignified recalling of a relationship doomed by Dylan’s growing fame.” –UNCUT magazine
Suze Rotolo chronicles her coming of age in Greenwich Village during the 1960s and...
So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star
How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful Of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
A hilarious inside look at the real business of popular music by the drummer of Semisonic that does for rock and roll what Jim Bouton's Ball Four did for baseball.
After years of working day jobs and making music in his basement, Jacob Slichter wondered if his dreams of rock stardom were a...
Louis Armstrong
An Extravagant Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.
Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants...
Let it Blurt
The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n'...
by Jane Borden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Jane Borden is a hybrid too horrifying to exist: a hipster-debutante. She was reared in a propert Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to boarding school in Virginia, and then went on to join a sorority in Chapel Hill. She next moved to New York and discovered that none of this grooming...
by The Countess of Carnarvon
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Catherine Wendell. In this transporting companion piece to the New York Times...