Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
by Dave Van Ronk
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singer, and one of the most influential guitarists of the '60s, he was also a marvelous storyteller, a...
Always Been There
Rosanne Cash, The List, and the Spirit of Southern Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1973, Rosanne Cash's father gave her a list of 100 songs that he felt a young musician had to know. Always Been There tells the inside story of the album that, more than thirty-five years later, resulted from that list. Based on original interviews conducted in the studio, on tour, and at home,...
First in Peace
How George Washington Set the Course for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Just before he died after a long and distinguished international career as a politician, commentator, and author, Conor Cruise O'Brien completed a study of George Washington's presidency. Cruise O'Brien has been described as a man who so persistently asks the right questions” (The Economist),...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven
(Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process)
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor's New York Times bestselling journey into the world of ghosts and the supernatural
Corey Taylor has seen a lot of unbelievable things. However, many of his most incredible experiences might just shock you. For much of his life, the Grammy Award-winning...
The Haunted Life
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In late 1944, under rather mysterious circumstances, aspiring writer Jack Kerouac lost a novella-length manuscript titled The Haunted Life. Set in Galloway, a fictionalized version of Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin-a character based on the author's...
Party Animals
A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Allan Carr was Hollywood’s premier party-thrower during the town’s most hedonistic era—the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway...
The Uprooted
A Hitler Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Whiteman, who escaped from Nazi-occupied Austria with her family, is now a clinical psychologist in New York. Her impassioned, riveting study of the Jews who managed to leave Germany and Austria before Hitler implemented mass executions and death camps is based partly on interviews with 190 escapees....
Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright
The Bob Marley Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Throughout Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and America, Bob Marley represents far more than just the musician who translated spiritual and political beliefs into hypnotic, hard-hitting songs such as "Get Up, Stand Up," "No Woman, No Cry," and "Jammin'." Marley was born...
by Greil Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year's most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it's appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone,...
Living Downstream
An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
The first edition of Living Downstream-an exquisite blend of precise science and engaging narrative-set a new standard for scientific writing. Poet, biologist, and cancer survivor, Steingraber uses all three kinds of experience to investigate the links between cancer and environmental toxins.
The...
Raising the Barre
Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw The Nutcracker, and from that day, at age five, she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But when she was twelve, her very famous ballet instructor crushed those dreams-along with her youthful self-assurance-and...
City on a Grid
How New York Became New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award
The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan
You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story.
Praise for City on a Grid
"The best account to date...
Heads
A Biography of Psychedelic America
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic distribution and belief system the world has ever known. Through a collection of fast-paced interlocking narratives, it animates the tale of an alternate America and its wide-eyed citizens: the LSD-slinging...
An Unlikely Prince
The Life and Times of Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (14691527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges-at once a brilliantly...