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No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan

by Robert Shelton, Elizabeth Thomson & Patrick Humphries

(Book). Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer first arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. This book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized...


Here and Now!: The Autobiography of Pat Martino

by Pat Martino

(Book). By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18, Martino moved to Harlem, where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-bopping six-stringer...


Garfield

by Allan Peskin

Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. "Garfield's military career, the congressional years, the Presidency, receive...


The Richard Burton Diaries

by Richard Burton & Chris Williams

Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's...


Don Andres and Paquita: The Life of Segovia in Montevideo

by Alfredo Escande, Charles Postlewate & Andres Segovia

(Amadeus). This heartbreaking tale uncovers a mystery in the life of one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century, guitarist Andres Segovia (1893-1987). He married the widowed Paquita Madriguera...


Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro

by Leonard Slatkin

(Amadeus). Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs...


Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man

by Helena Jobim

(Book). Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded "Desafinado," which stayed for 70 weeks on the Billboard charts....


Sinner's Creed

by Scott Stapp & David Ritz

Sinner's Creed is the uncensored memoir of Scott Stapp, Grammy Award-winning leader of the multiplatinum rock band CREED. During CREED's decade of dominance and in the years following the band's breakup, Scott...


Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

by Stephen Hinton

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows...


Mick Jagger

by Philip Norman

A supreme achiever to whom his colossal achievements seem to mean nothing . . .

A supreme extrovert who prefers discretion . . .

A supreme egotist who dislikes talking about himself . . .

Philip Norman has long...


Luck or Something Like It

by Kenny Rogers

A remarkable story of a boy who couldn't stop singing, and a man who knew how to hold 'em

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and...


Marilyn Revealed: The Ambitious Life of an American Icon

by Ted Schwarz

What made Norma Jean special was the quality she discovered when, bored with being a teenage bride with a husband in the Merchant Marine during World War II, she took her first and most enduring lover, the camera....


Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot: A Dual Biography

by Frederick P. Close

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese...


The Music and Life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro: Infatuation

by Leif Bo Petersen & Theo Rehak

This is the first comprehensive study of the music and life of Theodore 'Fats' Navarro. It provides biographical, discographical, and analytical information on the trumpeter and his recorded legacy, offering...


Anna Wickham: A Poet's Daring Life

by Jennifer Vaughan Jones

Poet Anna Wickham, a neglected figure in early 20th-century literature, is the subject of this biography. The book details her flight from her husband and sons to live with Natalie Clifford Barney in Paris,...


Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

by David Pietrusza

This book strips away the myths and facile explanations to reaveal the real Kenesaw Mountain Landis-with all the subtleties and contradictions that made him not only czar of baseball, but also the most famous,...


Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future

by J. Sydney Jones

The revelatory look at Hitler's formative years in Vienna provides startling insights into the future Furher.


Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild

by David Stenn

Silent screen goddess Clara Bow was the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's first sex symbol and a natural talent with an independent heart.


Bette Midler: Still Divine

by Mark Bego

This biography of the Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated redhead covers Bette's life and career from her childhood on Hawaii, her New York nightclub years, and her current career in Hollywood.


Matthau: A Life

by Rob Edelman & Audrey Kupferberg

Based on dozens of interviews and extensive research, this book covers the breadth of Walter Matthau's often-complicated personal life and multi-faceted career.