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Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings: Library of America #277
Virgil Thomson · Library Of America
Pages: 1100
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America's greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan · Harpercollins
Pages: 652
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
Claudia Roth Pierpont · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have... |
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The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered
Laura Auricchio · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution, who, at age nineteen, volunteered to fight under George Washington; a biography that looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance... |
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Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
Robert S Bader · Northwestern University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Print book
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"Who would have dreamed that there could be much, much more to learn in still another book about the Marx Brothers? Not I. And yet, Robert Bader focusing on the under-researched vaudeville days of the hilarious siblings has gone where no man went before, discovering a treasure trove... |
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Fireball: Carole Lombard and the Mystery of Flight 3
Robert Matzen · Paladin Communications
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This fresh look at Hollywoods Queen of Screwball, Carole Lombard, presents a first-ever examination of the events that led to the shocking flight mishap that took her life on the side of a Nevada mountain in 1942. It also provides a day-by-day account of the struggles of Lombards husband,... |
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
Larry Tye · Random House
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight... |
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The Land of Rowan Oak: An Exploration of Faulkner's Natural World
Edward M Croom · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 175
Format: Print book
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The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the "little postage stamp of soil" that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated... |
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no hero: the evolution of a navy seal
Mark Owen · Dutton
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic no easy day by former navy seal mark owen reveals the evolution of a seal team six operator mark owen's instant #1 new york times bestseller, no easy day: the firsthand account of the mission that killed osama bin laden, focused... |
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Rick Bragg · Knopf
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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From the beloved, best-selling author of All Over but the Shoutin', a delectable, rollicking food memoir, cookbook, and loving tribute to a region, a vanishing history, a family, and, especially, to his mother. Including seventy-five mouthwatering Bragg family recipes for classic southern... |
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Ted and I: A Brother's Memoir
Gerald Hughes · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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Anecdotal and immensely charming, Ted and I is a unique portrait of a shared childhood between Gerald Hughes and his younger brother Ted, one of the finest and best-loved poets of modern times. Teds love for Gerald was probably one of the most enduring and sustaining forces in his life.... |
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
Dawn Anahid MacKeen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 338
Format: Print book
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An epic tale of one man's courage in the face of genocide and his granddaughter's quest to tell his story In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation... |
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Jim Crow: A Historical Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
Nikki L. M. Brown · Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow. Provides a one-stop source of information for students researching the period of American history dominated... |
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