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| The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America
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James Sullivan.
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| Publisher: Gotham Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781592404902. Daedalus Item Code: 20546 |
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| Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received many tributes, yet few have addressed his contribution in the bleakest hour of the civil rights movement. The former pop ... (Read More)
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| Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music
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Jonathan Cross.
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| Publisher: Cornell. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801486722. Daedalus Item Code: 91879 |
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| For more than half a century contemporary British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle has been challenging audiences with his mixture of medieval and modern music. This book uncovers the sources of ... (Read More)
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| Henry Miller: The Paris Years
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Brassai. Timothy Bent, trans.
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| Publisher: Arcade. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781611453638. Daedalus Item Code: 11620 |
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| In 1930 Henry Miller arrived in Paris with no money, no fixed address, and no prospects. He left nine years later as the renowned if notorious author of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of ... (Read More)
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| Hons and Rebels
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Jessica Mitford. Christopher Hitchens, intro.
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| Publisher: New York Review Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781590171103. Daedalus Item Code: 29770 |
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| Growing up in Asthall Manor, the Cotswold estate of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, Jessica Mitford was among the last generation raised in the traditional lifestyle of the British ... (Read More)
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| The Hornes: An American Family
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Gail Lumet Buckley.
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| Publisher: Applause. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781557835642. Daedalus Item Code: 21791 |
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| More than a compassionate biography of musical legend Lena Horne, this is a history of a leading African-American family, written by Horne's daughter. Gail Lumet Buckley traces her own as well as her ... (Read More)
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| House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
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Paul Fisher.
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| Publisher: Holt. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780805090208. Daedalus Item Code: 10547 |
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| The James family gave the world three famous children: a novelist of genius (Henry), an influential philosopher (William), and an invalid (Alice) who became a feminist icon, despite her sheltered ... (Read More)
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| How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
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William J. Mann.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547134642. Daedalus Item Code: 11183 |
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| The biographer of Katharine Hepburn here turns to another Hollywood icon and the last great star of the old studio system; indeed, as William Mann portrays her, Elizabeth Taylor married her first ... (Read More)
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| How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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Frances Wilson.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780062094544. Daedalus Item Code: 23952 |
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| This original and gripping history looks at the sinking of the Titanic through the prism of the life and lost honor of J. Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner. While many of the men aboard lit ... (Read More)
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| I'd Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir
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Ring Lardner Jr. Victor Navasky, intro.
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| Publisher: Nation. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781560253389. Daedalus Item Code: 20230 |
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| This memoir by Ring Lardner Jr. is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of the immensely popular and influential writer, Lardner worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for ... (Read More)
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| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Maya Angelou.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812980028. Daedalus Item Code: 29190 |
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| When this first of her six autobiographical books was published in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the pangs and lessons of her childhood in the American ... (Read More)
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| An Incautious Man: The Life of Gouverneur Morris
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Melanie Randolph Miller.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781933859729. Daedalus Item Code: 31152 |
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| The editor of the Gouverneur Morris Papers: Diaries Project and the author of Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution, Melanie Miller here provides an elegant, ... (Read More)
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| Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, a Personal Biography
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Charlotte Chandler.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780743294218. Daedalus Item Code: 10751 |
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| Ingrid Bergman was one of the biggest and most glamorous stars in Hollywood—acting with Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Gregory Peck in such films as Casablanca, Spellbound, ... (Read More)
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