Robert Greenfield: 11 books
Stones Touring Party
A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
‘ A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972… Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today’ The Times
The Stones’ 1972 tour of the States was perhaps their best – and certainly most notorious – ever. Their previous visit in 1969...
Bear
The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The creator of the dancing bear logo and designer of the Wall of Sound for the Grateful Dead, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s.
Owsley's high...
Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye
The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the small theaters and town halls where their careers began. No backstage passes. No security. No sound checks or rehearsals. And only one journalist allowed. That journalist now delivers...
S.t.p.
A Journey Through America With The Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
"One of the greatest rock books ever written."--GQ
Thirty years ago, the Rolling Stones swept America, taking Exile on Main Street to Main Streets across the nation. Everyone held their breath to see what would happen; the Stones' previous U.S. tour had been a chaotic circus culminating...
The Last Sultan
The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown; Big Joe Turner; Ray Charles; Bobby Darin;...
Mother American Night
My Life in Crazy Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate.
Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and...
Dark Star
An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best. Together the voices in this oral...
A Day in the Life
One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A tender, moving, and often harrowing look at the...
The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings
The Must-Have CDs and DVDs
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR
This completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than...
by Barbara C. Greenfield, Robert A. Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A fun and interesting way for middle school students to get their first information about college and how it’s a possible and worthwhile goal to pursue. Starts with the basics and gives a comprehensive overview of everything the student can expect when exploring college—all in bite-sized pieces.
by M.G. Aune, Bruce E. Brandt, Douglas Bruster
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing...