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The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre

Andy Propst · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Wicked and Hamilton, the musical is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions of some of theatre's most prominent figures. Never have musicals been more popular than they are today. With live television broadcasts of shows like Rent and Hairspray...
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A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits―Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More

Paul Hirsch · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor who worked on such classics as George Lucas's Star Wars and The Empire...
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South Away: The Pacific Coast on Two Wheels

Meaghan Hackinen · Newest Pr
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, BC down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Along the way Hackinen battles with the elements in Vancouver Island's dense northern forests and frigid...
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A Warning

Anonymous · Twelve
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

Cartier Brickell, Francesca · Ballantine Books
Pages: 688
Format: Hardcover

The captivating story of the family behind Cartier, and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon--as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives.The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry...
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Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

John Hardman · Yale University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover

A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her....
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Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

Tom Chaffin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions -- and two nations....
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade · Sentinel
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.In his now-trademark style, Brian Kilmeade brings alive one of the most pivotal moments in American history, this time...
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

Paul Hendrickson · Knopf
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi--an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect.Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank...
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Irving Berlin: New York Genius

James Kaplan · Yale University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

A fast‑moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called - by George Gershwin, among others - the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American...
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