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Burt Lancaster: An American Life Best Price: $6.88 Please permit me to straighten out a few allegations promulgated in this rather prurient...	Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 Best Price: $10.69 In the first pages of this book, author Frederic Morton reveals the reason he has such an...	Jazz And Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader Best Price: $3.94 Jazz And Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader is a collection of columnist and jazz expert...	The Professional Best Price: $11.52 Being a boxing writer myself for many years, I can now totally appreciate it when people told me...	Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece Best Price: $11.95 This was one of the worst books that I've read in a while and I'm so glad that i got it...



Musical Stages: An Autobiography Best Price: $8.84 This book is a fast (but not too fast) read, full of useful information and anecdotes. Rodgers...	Billie Holiday: Wishing On The Moon Best Price: $14.91 Dear Amazon reviewers and readers: I am on the last page of this incredible book. I...	Sondheim and Co -Op/104	Minstrel-Show Songs (Earlier American Music number 14)	Walker Evans: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection 1935-1938 (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $104.42 Walker Evans wasn't the most prolific of Roy Stryker's photographers; he turned in about...



Naked Hollywood (A Da Capo paperback)	Encyclopedia Of The Musical Theatre (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $16.74 This book is a must-have for people who work in, study, or love the musical theatre. When did a...	Black Night, White Snow (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $30.49 Harrison Salisbury, correspondent to the "Second World" of Russia during some of the...	Jazz Masters Of The 50s (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $8.39 The fifties, though a quiescent period in many ways, was one of the most fervent decades in jazz...	Crimsoned Prairie (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $3.50 The majority of Marshall's books are written after interviewing soldiers who just got out of...

Fritz Lang (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $13.47 I picked this book up awhile back, it was pretty thick so I looked forward to reading it. Once I...	Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets Best Price: $14.40 Below is a different review of the same book, which I wrote for 'Antiquarian Horology': ...	The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation Best Price: $2.69 Author John Man, whose books are reflective of someone in love with history, has given readers a...	Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind Best Price: $2.98 "Finding Iris Chang "by Paula Kamen is the story about Iris Chang, the authoress of...	The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV Best Price: $3.31 Purchased the book from used books via Amazon. The price was amazing and the product good. ...

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture Best Price: $0.01 In this collection of essays, mostly about music, David Hajdu doesn't hold back from...	Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology Best Price: $0.01 If the future of clean energy technology hopes to successfully enable our society's...	The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness Best Price: $5.54 There is much to commend about The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to...	Best Music Writing 2010 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) Best Price: $2.85 There are many who bemoan the virtual disappearance of the rock-crit intelligencia from our...	Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan Best Price: $3.91 In a grand sweeping narrative, Pacific Air tells the inspiring story of how, despite initial...

The Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of Intelligence Best Price: $4.45 In this work, Dr. Greenspan provides the reader with a general thesis on human development, from...	Catholics In Crisis: An American Parish Fights For Its Soul Best Price: $19.12 ...as one review describes it. The main (real life) character in the book is a homosexual Jesuit...	Helen And Teacher: The Story Of Helen Keller And Anne Sullivan Macy (Radcliffe Biography Series) Best Price: $42.55 This is the best biography about Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller that I have read. Since I was a...	Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History Best Price: $8.65 It galls me, frankly, that the only claim to fame which most "celebrities" have today...	The Angry Gut: Coping With Colitis And Crohn's Disease Best Price: $7.56 This is a technical overview of IBD covering anatomy, how the gut works, history...

Farewell Fossil Fuels Energy has become America?s forgotten crisis. For more than a decade, Americans have become...	Educating Yourself About Alcohol And Drugs: A People's Primer, Revised Edition Best Price: $2.99 Dr. Schuckit - one of the world's leading authorities in the field of drug and alcohol abuse...	Hepatitis C, The Silent Epidemic: The Authoritative Guide Best Price: $2.79 This book reads like a conversation with a concerned, experienced and optimistic doctor! It...	Odilon Redon : Complete illustrative catalogue of lithographs and etchings (French Edition)	Etude Sur Le Mouvement D'Art Decoratif En Allemagne

A History of Music in Scotland (Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series)	Negative Space: Manny Farber On The Movies Best Price: $55.88 I opened the book with high expectations: Farber has a reputation. I suspect this is, ipso...	The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961 Best Price: $12.80 I came about Rorem 'round about-ly -through videos of interviews and liner note snippets -...	Celebrating Bird: The Triumph Of Charlie Parker Best Price: $122.22 I had a wonderful time reading this book. It's more of a long essay than it is a book. ...	Skywalking: The Life And Films Of George Lucas, Updated Edition Best Price: $8.88 In times past the function of biographies was generally to elevate their subjects to noble...

The Duel For France, 1944: The Men And Battles That Changed The Fate Of Europe Best Price: $4.50 The Duel for France, 1944-The Men and Battles that Changed the Fate of Europe by Martin...	The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) Best Price: $7.99 Howard Meyer is to be commended for his efforts at rescuing T. W. Higginson from the dustbin of...	The Last Madam: A Life In The New Orleans Underworld Best Price: $3.49 If you enjoyed reading Al Rose's "Storyville: New Orleans" or Herbert Asbury's...	Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong Best Price: $4.99 Who knew that someone from such humble beginnings could become one of the greatest trumpeters...	Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets Best Price: $14.40 Below is a different review of the same book, which I wrote for 'Antiquarian Horology': ...

The Terra Cotta Army: China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation Best Price: $2.69 Author John Man, whose books are reflective of someone in love with history, has given readers a...	Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind Best Price: $2.98 "Finding Iris Chang "by Paula Kamen is the story about Iris Chang, the authoress of...	The Man Who Outshone the Sun King: A Life of Gleaming Opulence and Wretched Reversal in the Reign of Louis XIV Best Price: $3.31 Purchased the book from used books via Amazon. The price was amazing and the product good. ...	Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture Best Price: $0.01 In this collection of essays, mostly about music, David Hajdu doesn't hold back from...	Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology Best Price: $0.01 If the future of clean energy technology hopes to successfully enable our society's...

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness Best Price: $5.54 There is much to commend about The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to...	Best Music Writing 2010 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) Best Price: $2.85 There are many who bemoan the virtual disappearance of the rock-crit intelligencia from our...	Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan Best Price: $3.91 In a grand sweeping narrative, Pacific Air tells the inspiring story of how, despite initial...	The Growth of the Mind: And the Endangered Origins of Intelligence Best Price: $4.45 In this work, Dr. Greenspan provides the reader with a general thesis on human development, from...	Transcendental Style In Film (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $11.47 For some reason or other, this book remains, thirty years after its publishing, an authoritative...

The Tradition Of Constructivism (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $12.75 With these words the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner pronounced the official birth of...	My Life And My Films (Da Capo Paperback) Best Price: $11.99 Jean Renoir is among the two or three greatest directors of all time. A man who made 20...	The Summer That Didn't End (Quality Paperbacks Series) Best Price: $5.95 During the summer of 1964, America suddenly lost its innocence. By October, as a terrible by...	Freud And His Followers (Da Capo Series in Science) Best Price: $15.60 This book is a treasure trove of information about Freud and his early followers. Roazen (who...	John Coltrane Best Price: $4.40 This is the second book on Coltrane that I have read and, while interesting, it has some...

The Trouble They Seen: The Story Of Reconstruction In The Words Of African Americans Best Price: $7.50 The reconstruction period was the most innovative period of American history. It only lasted...	Chancellorsville And Gettysburg (Campaigns of the Civil War) Best Price: $2.05 Obviously, I don't quite agree with some other reviewers here. Whatever his motives,...	The Guinness Book Of Espionage Best Price: $0.95 Good book with information about all types of espionage for a number of different countries....	The Defeat Of Imperial Germany, 1917-1918 (Major Battles & Campaigns) Best Price: $10.69 Paschall's book focuses in part on the role of the American Expeditionary Force in the...	Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima Best Price: $2.30 D K Drum tells the story of a brave boy whom war changed into a man. Jack was a big boy for his...

White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America Best Price: $6.71 Stephen Brumwell's book, "White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in...	Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II Best Price: $5.45 Although it was one of the most melodramatic moments of the Second World War, when Hitler sent a...	Won't Back Down Best Price: $7.74 Reading this book was enjoyable because it gave me a deeper insight into what makes Kim Mulkey...	The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir Best Price: $0.01 With a major motion picture of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People about to be released...	The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805 Best Price: $0.98 Kagan's biography is probably the most detailed account of Napoleon out there. I thought it...

Hell Is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific--Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944 Best Price: $0.01 Just a bad book: full of solecisms, typos, possibly produced by a foreign language syntax...	The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952 Best Price: $1.90 I wish I could have written like that when I was 11. I wish I could write like that now. ...	Johnny Cash: The Biography Best Price: $3.21 In classical literature, it was the Greeks who first expounded the tale of the hero with a...	What Do We Know: Poems And Prose Poems Best Price: $2.27 Best read out loud. Poems about nature and life.	Jackson's Valley Campaign: November 1861- June 1862 (Great Campaigns) Best Price: $12.91 In a few short months in the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson rewrote military history....

The Philadelphia Campaign: June 1777- July 1778 (Great Campaigns) Best Price: $13.11 I began this book with high hopes, and it seemed interesting enough. Soon, though, I...	General John Buford: A Military Biography Best Price: $3.54 In General John Buford, Edward Longacre tries to fill out the life of a Civil War general who...	L. Frank Baum: Creator Of Oz Best Price: $0.98 Although this book seems a bit on the dry side, it is nevertheless a well researched biography...	U.S. Armed Forces Arsenal: A Guide To Modern Combat Hardware Best Price: $4.48 One wouldn't expect it from a first glance at this compact volume about modern combat...	The Discovery And Conquest Of Mexico Best Price: $13.62 I thought Hugh Thomas's CONQUEST, with its hundreds of sources, included everything there...

Something In The Way She Moves: Dancing Women From Salome To Madonna Best Price: $3.66 As someone deeply interested in feminism and dance, I was excited to read what Buonaventura has...	Napoleon and the Hundred Days Best Price: $2.45 Napoleon and the Hundred Days is an insightful book that vividly describes Napoleon and his...	Standing Eight: The Inspiring Story of Jesus "El Matador" Chavez, Who Became Lightweight Champion of the World Best Price: $0.01 I have just finished reading your book "Standing Eight." It has left me with an...	Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington Best Price: $12.14 Beyond Category is the best introduction to Duke Ellington's life and music. It was created...	The Spirit Of Seventy-six: The Story Of The American Revolution As Told By Participants Best Price: $17.69 "Spirit of '76" is a major collection of original sources on the Revolutionary...

Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico Best Price: $18.94 that is how President Porfirio Diaz described his home country of Mexico as went through another...	Nuremberg Diary Best Price: $10.99 This book was totally fantastic! A real chance to get into the minds of the higher up Nazis! ...	Joe Papp: An American Life Best Price: $13.75 The story of Joe Papp is the story of a precious stage ofAmerican theater history -- an...	Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long Best Price: $2.42 This is the way Huey Long wanted to be remembered. During the Depression, he did make promises...	Conflict: The History Of The Korean War, 1950-1953 Best Price: $13.39 I found this book to be polemic as all get out. The monograph was a black and white portrayal of...

Night Studio: A Memoir Of Philip Guston Best Price: $11.99 Night Studio is an excellent read about one of the more fascinating and well thought out...	Here At The New Yorker Best Price: $4.98 Loved reading it the first time & only later discovered how HTNY glossed over what actually...

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