Da Capo Press
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Elia Kazan: A Life
$32.95 Add to cartElia Kazan’s varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Art… [more below]
- Author: Kazan, Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 860
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0306808048
- Language: English
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The Dillinger Days
$24.99 Add to cartFor thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, in… [more below]
- Author: Toland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306806266
- Language: English
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Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes
$19.99 Add to cartHampton Hawes [1928-1977] was one of jazz’s greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of th… [more below]
- Author: Hawes, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 06 2001
- ISBN10: 1560253533
- Language: English
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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
$21.99 Add to cartIn this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny — both British and American. Remembere… [more below]
- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820463
- Language: English
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Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock
$24.99 Add to cartBeginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time econo… [more below]
- Author: Harris, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 13 2004
- ISBN10: 030681367X
- Language: English
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
$16.95 Add to cartJazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and sits near the top of any list o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0306815583
- Language: English
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Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
$19.99 Add to cartBest known for his Oscar-nominated song “Miss Misery” from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards. … [more below]
- Author: Nugent, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814471
- Language: English
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The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring
$19.99 Add to cartSince 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months “hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their h… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 22 1990
- ISBN10: 0201570033
- Language: English
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Legend of a Rock Star: A Memoir: The Last Testament of Dee Dee Ramone
$21.99 Add to cartSo you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star? Maybe you should listen to what Dee Dee Ramone has to say first. In Legend of a Rock Star the myth of the rock ‘n’ roll good life is destroyed once and for all…. [more below]
- Author: Ramone, Dee Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2003
- ISBN10: 1560253894
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$16.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
$25.99 Add to cartFifty years after they first came together and changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock’s most beloved bands — a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations… [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0306824477
- Language: English
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Summer of ’68: The Season That Changed Baseball — And America — Forever
$21.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season–when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by nati- Author: Wendel, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821834
- Language: English
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Garcia: A Signpost to New Space
$19.99 Add to cartJerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia wa… [more below]
- Author: Garcia, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812533
- Language: English
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
$25.99 Add to cartStanley Kubrick, director of the acclaimed films Path of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket, is arguably one of th… [more below]
- Author: LoBrutto, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 606
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306809060
- Language: English
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
$27.99 Add to cartTheodore Roosevelt’s writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history–not even Jefferson–had so many opinions and intellectual interests, be… [more below]
- Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 636
- Publish Date: March 22 1985
- ISBN10: 0306802325
- Language: English
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The Quantum Universe: (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
$18.99 Add to cartInternational bestselling authors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw’s fascinating, entertaining, and clear introduction to quantum mechanics
In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the- Author: Cox, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821443
- Language: English
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Hit So Hard: A Memoir
$37.00 Add to cartA stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the ’90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock ‘n’ roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel’s story b- Author: Schemel, Patty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825074
- Language: English
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Almost a Woman: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartFollowing the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santia… [more below]
- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Santiago, Esmeralda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 030682082X
- Language: English
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The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle Ages
$25.00 Add to cartThe castles of the Medieval world continue to interest readers, both as architectural wonders and because of their dramatic role in world history. The general public is largely unaware of just how man… [more below]
- Author: Kaufmann, J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813580
- Language: English
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered Teh Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to th
$27.99 Add to cartA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice’s biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man whose real-life accomplishments are the stuff of legend. Rice … [more below]
- Author: Rice, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 702
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 030681028X
- Language: English
