Da Capo Press
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Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography
$24.00 Add to cartThis exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr’s classic biography throws new light on Davis’ life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; thr… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: December 21 2006
- ISBN10: 1560259671
- Language: English
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I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales
$19.99 Add to cartFor years, Todd Snider has been one of the most beloved country-folk singers in the United States, compared to Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, John Prine, and dozens of others. He’s become not only a new-centur… [more below]
- Author: Snider, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0306822601
- Language: English
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America’s fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 030681918X
- Language: English
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How to Be a Man: (And Other Illusions)
$19.99 Add to cartThe cofounder of Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, and Walking Papers shares what the hard-knock rock life has taught him about how to be a good dude (in spite of it all).
One wouldn’t usually turn to- Author: McKagan, Duff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0306824493
- Language: English
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East
$17.99 Add to cartWhile European civilization stagnated in the “Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual co… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 030681739X
- Language: English
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Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story
$19.99 Add to cartPerhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era-but equally at home singing blues and jazz — Etta James is one of the great women of American music. In Rage to Survive she tells her mesmerizing tale i… [more below]
- Author: Ritz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812622
- Language: English
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When I Left Home: My Story
$19.99 Add to cartAccording to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Pa… [more below]
- Author: Guy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0306821796
- Language: English
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How to American: An Immigrant’s Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
$35.00 Add to cartStandup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO’s Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
“I turn- Author: Yang, Jimmy O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0306903490
- Language: English
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Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen
$19.99 Add to cartMinistry is a memoir both ugly and captivating, revealing Al Jourgensen as a man who lived a hard life his own way without making compromises. He survived prolonged drug addiction — twenty-two years … [more below]
- Author: Jourgensen, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0306824639
- Language: English
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Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBetween 1948 and 1961, Earnest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And ever… [more below]
- Author: Hotchner, A. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306814277
- Language: English
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Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
$26.00 Add to cartAn insider’s history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day
Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone S- Author: Fehrenbach, T. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0306809427
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Macdougal Street: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartDave Van Ronk (1936-2002) was one of the founding figures of the 1960s folk revival, but he was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a fine songwriter and arranger, a powerful singe… [more below]
- Author: Van Ronk, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0306822164
- Language: English
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Brother Ray: Ray Charles’ Own Story
$21.99 Add to cartRay Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical deve… [more below]
- Author: Ritz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0306814315
- Language: English
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The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People
$24.99 Add to cartFrancis Davis’s The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mis… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812967
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
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Conversations with the Dead: The Grateful Dead Interview Book
$24.99 Add to cartA collection of interviews–some vintage, some recent, and some brand-new–Conversations with the Dead is the first (and only) book in which the Grateful Dead speak in their own words about their musi… [more below]
- Series: Grateful Dead Interview Book
- Author: Gans, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0306810999
- Language: English
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The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968
$19.99 Add to cart“The American Cinema is the Citizen Kane of film criticism, a brilliant book that elevated American directors from craftsmen to artists, launched the careers of numerous film critics, and shaped the a… [more below]
- Author: Sarris, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306807289
- Language: English
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I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
$19.99 Add to cartI’m the Man is the fast-paced, humorous, and revealing memoir from the man who co-founded Anthrax, the band that proved to the masses that brutality and fun didn’t have to be mutually exclusive. Throu… [more below]
- Author: Ian, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 306824191
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
$24.99 Add to cart“A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking” (Newsweek), now the basis for the new season of TCM’s hit podcast, “The Plot Thickens”
When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon- Author: Salamon, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811235
- Language: English
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Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper
$26.99 Add to cartArt Pepper (1925-1982) was called the greatest alto saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. But his autobiography, Straight Life, is much more than a jazz book–it is one of the most explos… [more below]
- Author: Pepper, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: July 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0306805588
- Language: English
