Rick Kennedy: 3 books
Jesus, History, and Mt. Darwin
An Academic Excursion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Written in the genre of Henry David Thoreau's travel-thinking essays, Jesus, History, and Mount Darwin: An Academic Excursion is the story of a three-day climb into the Evolution Range of the High Sierra mountains of California. Mount Darwin stands among other mountains near fourteen thousand feet...
The First American Evangelical
A Short Life of Cotton Mather
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Cotton Mather (1663-1728) was America's most famous pastor and scholar at the beginning of the eighteenth century. People today generally associate him with the infamous Salem witch trials, but in this new biography Rick Kennedy tells a bigger story: Mather, he says, was the very first American evangelical.
A...
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy
Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
“A lively and anecdotal history” of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings (Jazz Times).
From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of...