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Right or Wrong
The Memoirs of Lord Bell
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Tim Bell is the original 'spin doctor'; the Chairman of Bell Pottinger public relations, and one of the best known figures in UK media communications. Right or Wrong is his highly personal account of political, commercial and social life from the '70s to the present day. With a refreshingly uncompromising...
Architecture's Odd Couple
Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867–1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906–2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built...
Identity Unknown
Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
An award-winning critic rescues seven first-rate women artists from oblivion--their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation.
Who hasn't wondered where-aside from Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books, they've been marginalized with cold efficiency,...
Al Capp
A Life to the Contrary
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated...
India Inspires
Redefining the Politics of Deliverance
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources and Ganga Rejuvenation, is among the most efficient ministers of the present government. From an average highways road construction pace of 3 km/day in May 2014 when he took over, under his tenure this figure...
Fire in the Belly
The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
“[Fire in the Belly is] unimprovable as a biography-thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical-as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial.” -Luc Sante, Bookforum
David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school,...
Tom and Jack
The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only...
Talk About a Dream
The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Bruce Springsteen often prefers to let his music do the talking. His onstage stories and shaggy dog tales have long entertained his fans, but his songs and his guitar provide the most direct line to their hearts. Considering his prominence on the rock 'n' roll landscape, Springsteen has spent remarkably...
by Tara Murtha
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe†? knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love†? off the top of the charts,...
Waves Passing in the Night
Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.
For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the...
Memphis Rent Party
The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
"Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right." --Keith Richards
"An emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you." --Elvis Costello
"Robert...
Torment Saint
The Life of Elliott Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Elliott Smith was one of the most gifted songwriters of the '90s, adored by fans for his subtly melancholic words and melodies.The sadness had its sources in the life.There was trauma from an early age, years of drug abuse, and a chronic sense of disconnection that sometimes seemed self-engineered.Smith...
by Darran Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero....
Starting At Zero
His Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him forever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely private...