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by Patti Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2019
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds...
Rhythm And The Blues
A Life in American Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs.
What Is It All but Luminous
Notes from an Underground Man
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
**"Poetic musings on a life well-lived—one that is still moving forward, always creating, always luminous. This isn't your typical autobiography. Garfunkel's history is told in flowing prose, bounding from present to past, far from a linear rags-to-riches story."
—Bookreporter
"It's hard...
Stravinsky
The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
This, the second and final volume of Stephen Walsh’s magisterial biography of Igor Stravinsky, begins in 1934, when Stravinsky is fifty-two and living in France. Already regarded by many as the most important composer of his generation, Stravinsky is nevertheless at this point a fairly unhappy expatriate,...
Tragic Muse
Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultural patrimony of France. Yet her passionate, startling performances of the works of Racine and Corneille...
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have...
The Castle on Sunset
Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
***LA Times Bestseller*
*An Amazon "Best History Books of 2019 So Far" Pick*
"Fascinating, dishy, and glimmering with insight." --Cheryl Strayed
"A fabulously fizzy account." --Vanity Fair
"I want to live inside this book!" --Taylor Jenkins Reid
The...
by Richard Schickel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Now with a new afterword: the history and process of moviemaking in general, and of Martin Scorsese's brilliant and varied films in particular, through the words and wit of the master director.
With Richard Schickel as the canny and intelligent guide, these conversations take us deep into Scorsese's...
by Jeanine Basinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten.
Here...
Eleonora Duse
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A new biography, the first in two decades, of the legendary actress who inspired Anton Chekhov, popularized Henrik Ibsen, and spurred Stanislavski to create a new theory of acting based on her art and to invoke her name at every rehearsal.
Writers loved her and wrote plays for her. She be-friended...
Young Benjamin Franklin
The Birth of Ingenuity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.
From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has...
Brinkley's Beat
People, Places, and Events That Shaped My Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.
Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider...
Fighting the Flying Circus
The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come out of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
In Fighting the Flying Circus, Captain Rickenbacker recounts his combat missions against the Germans in the skies over Europe during WWI.
Eva Braun
Life with Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike B. Görtemaker delves into the startlingly neglected historical truth about Adolf Hitler’s mistress. More than just the vapid blonde of popular cliché, Eva Braun was a capricious but uncompromising, fiercely loyal companion to...