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More Blues Singers
Biographies of 50 Artists from the Later 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The first book by David Dicaire, Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century, (McFarland, 1999), included pioneers, innovators, superstars, and cult heroes of blues music born before 1940. This second work covers those born after 1940 who have continued the tradition....
Evidence of Arthur
Fixing the Legendary King in Factual Place and Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur’s existence in several original approaches to the subject. Examining the extant literature and other evidence, the author searches for the truth of the...
Gary Paulsen
A Companion to the Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers Nightjohn, Soldier’s Heart, and Woods Runner. From his trenchant prose in The Rifle and The Foxman to the witty escapades of Harris and Me and Zero to...
by Flint F. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In this book, the author makes use of the methodology he developed in Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland 2012) in order to reevaluate the post–Roman history of Britain. He begins by delving into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century—Hengest and Gwrtheyrn....
Eastern Air Lines
A History, 1926-1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation. Clement Keys of National Air Transport bought the company in 1929, changed the name to Eastern Air Transport and began passenger...
Tony Hulman
The Man Who Saved the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Almost unknown when in 1945 he purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its famous race, Tony Hulman soon became a household name in auto racing circles. He is credited not only with saving the Speedway from becoming a residential housing development but also with reinvigorating auto racing in...
by David Huckvale
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Hammer Film’s is justly famous for Gothic horror but the company also excelled in the psychological thriller. Influenced by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Alfred Hitchcock, Hammer created its own approach to this genre in some of the company’s very best films. This book takes a chronological, film-by-film...
The Crouching Beast
A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia—the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger...
Dancing for Young Audiences
A Practical Guide to Creating, Managing and Marketing a Performance Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to handle bookings, write effective grants, handle crowds of children, keep their interest high and deal with the unexpected—backstage, or onstage or costume! Important also: how to maintain the...
Ghosts and Shadows
A Marine in Vietnam, 1968-1969
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The author arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego ill-prepared for the training and abuse that awaited him in boot camp. At the time, he would have done anything to escape; only upon reflection years later did he realize that the self-confidence instilled in him by his drill instructors...
Inside the Rise of HBO
A Personal History of the Company That Transformed Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium cable channel began a revolution in the business and...
Eye of the Tiger
Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
“We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.” John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins...
Crossing Antietam
The Civil War Letters of Captain Henry Augustus Sand, Company A, 103rd New York Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
“Bearing aloft the flag of his country in the final charge” by Company A, 103rd New York Volunteers at the Battle of Antietam, Captain Henry Augustus Sand fell wounded. He penned a letter to his family in Brooklyn Heights while lying on the battlefield, and then three more before dying of his...
Black British Theatre Pioneers
Yvonne Brewster and the First Generation of Actors, Playwrights and Other Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A Jamaican-born stage director, teacher and writer Yvonne Brewster stands among the most prominent British artists of Afro-Caribbean cultural heritage. A member of the Order of the British Empire, she co-founded Talawa, Britain’s foremost black-led theatre company, as well as The Barn, Jamaica’s...