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Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War

Jonathan Rosenberg · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations.

Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of twentieth-century American life, occupying a prominent...

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The Stan Lee Story

Roy Thomas · TASCHEN
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

This is the big one, True Believers! The mostly true tale of Stan Lee: a Giant-Size extravaganza, nearly ten years in the making, about the one and only Godfather of Comics. From his childhood in Depression-era New York, to transforming Marvel into the number one comics publisher in the world,...
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Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim

Rob Kapilow · Liveright
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow." -- Kansas City Star

Few people in recent memory have dedicated themselves as devotedly to the story of twentieth- century American music as Rob Kapilow,...

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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Joni Mitchell · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time

In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted...
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Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era

Mark A. Vieira · Running Press Adult
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining era when a lax code of censorship let sin rule the movies.

Forbidden Hollywood is a history of "pre-Code"...
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Vanity Fair's Women on Women

Radhika Jones · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika JonesGail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama....
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Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams

Allred, Michael · INSIGHT ED

Inspired by the one and only superhero, extraterrestrial, and rock and roll deity in history, BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams is the original graphic memoir of the great Ziggy Stardust In life, David Bowie was one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, seducing...
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