Category: Biography

By Dean Jensen

THE LIVES AND LOVES OF DAISY AND VIOLET HILTON follows the poignant existence tale of dual sisters who have been actually joined on the hip, set opposed to the tumultuous backdrop of the USA throughout the first 1/2 the 20 th century. Daisy and Violet and an unforgettable forged of show-business characters come alive at the pages of this rigorously researched and sensitively written biography.Reviews"Jensen'¬?s publication is a testomony to the fickleness of the leisure world."-Tampa Bay Tribune"It is an affecting tale, lightly and truthfully advised with out frills, with out sensation. In Jensen'¬?s palms, the twins are continuously human, participants, by no means freaks joined on the hips because the international observed them after their delivery in 1908. . . right here, their tale is pure."-Milwaukee magazine Sentinel

By Robert Walker

Publish yr note: First released in 1980
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In this biography, Robert Walker skilfully blends the interesting tale of Rachmaninoff's existence with the old heritage of his instances. the writer indicates, too, how outdoor impacts- the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, the nice conflict, the Wall road Crash and the good melancholy- a great deal affected Rachmaninoff as an artist.

As good because the use of up to date bills, letters and recollections, the writer has received reminiscences first-hand from extraordinary musicians who knew the composer initmately and labored heavily with him.

The e-book is illustrated all through with images of the time, that are as interesting because the textual content.

By Douglas Brinkley

For many years, Walter Cronkite was once often called "the so much depended on guy in America." thousands around the kingdom welcomed him into their houses, first as a print reporter for the United Press at the entrance traces of global conflict II, and later, within the rising medium of tv, as a bunch of various documentary courses and as anchor of the CBS night information, from 1962 till his retirement in 1981. but this very public determine, unquestionably the 20th century's so much respected journalist, was once a remarkably deepest guy; few understand the entire tale of his existence. Drawing on exceptional entry to Cronkite's deepest papers in addition to interviews together with his friends and family, Douglas Brinkley now brings this American icon into concentration as by no means before.

Brinkley lines Cronkite's tale from his roots in Missouri and Texas throughout the nice melancholy, within which he begun his occupation, to global struggle II, while he won detect reporting with Allied troops from North Africa, D-day, and the conflict of the Bulge. In 1950, Edward R. Murrow recruited him to paintings for CBS, the place he lined presidential elections, the distance application, Vietnam, and the 1st televised publicizes of the Olympic video games, as either a reporter and later as an anchor for the night information. Cronkite was once additionally witness to—and the nation's voice for—many of the main profound moments in smooth American heritage, together with the Kennedy assassination, Apollos eleven and thirteen, Watergate, the Vietnam warfare, and the Iran hostage crisis.

Epic, intimate, and masterfully written, Cronkite is the much-anticipated biography of a rare American lifestyles, instructed by means of considered one of our so much impressive and revered historians.

By Gail L. Jenner

Colicky horses, vans high-centered in pastures, overdue nights spent in barns birthing calves—the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch lifestyles are as vital to its event as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners on the ranch condominium. Ankle excessive and Knee Deep collects jointly essays approximately classes discovered via ranch girls, cowgirls, and farmers approximately what they've realized whereas status in or stepping out of "mud, manure, and different offal" of their day after day lives at the land. This selection of enjoyable and inspirational voices bargains targeted views on relationships, loss, love, marriage, and parenting and different common matters. those are modern money owed of ladies suffering to maintain a life-style intact, reminiscences of childhoods spent in open areas, and stories of overcoming obstacles—inspirational examining for urban dwellers and nation folks, alike.

By S. C. Gwynne

From the writer of the prizewinning big apple occasions bestseller Empire of the summer season Moon comes an exciting account of ways Civil conflict basic Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson turned a very good and tragic American hero.

Stonewall Jackson has lengthy been a determine of legend and romance. up to any one within the accomplice pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern inspiration of the virtuous misplaced reason. Jackson is additionally thought of, with no argument, one in every of our country’s maximum army figures. His brilliance on the artwork of struggle tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union excessive command in knots and threatened the last word good fortune of the Union armies. Jackson’s strategic options shattered the traditional knowledge of ways warfare used to be waged; he was once up to now prior to his time that his strategies will be studied generations into the future.

In April 1862 Jackson was once in simple terms one other accomplice common in a military battling what looked to be a wasting reason. through June he had engineered possibly the best army crusade in American historical past and used to be probably the most recognized males within the Western international. He had, furthermore, given the accomplice reason what it had lately lacked—hope—and struck worry into the hearts of the Union.

Rebel Yell is written with the speedily bright narrative that's Gwynne’s hallmark and is wealthy with conflict lore, biographical aspect, and severe clash among old figures. Gwynne delves deep into Jackson’s deepest lifestyles, together with the lack of his younger liked first spouse and his regimented own conduct. It lines Jackson’s impressive twenty-four-month profession within the Civil struggle, the interval that encompasses his upward thrust from obscurity to status and legend; his wonderful impression at the process the warfare itself; and his tragic demise, which brought on either North and South to grieve the lack of a awesome American hero.

By Patrick McGilligan

In a occupation that spanned six a long time and greater than sixty movies, Alfred Hitchcock grew to become the main widely known director who ever lived. His movies -- together with The 39 Steps, Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds -- set new criteria for cinematic invention and storytelling Élan. because his loss of life, Hitchcock has develop into crystallized within the public mind's eye because the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the grasp of Suspense. yet this outstanding biography attracts on prodigious new study to revive Hitchcock the fellow -- the inventive craftsman, the avid collaborator, the consistent trickster, provocateur, and romantic. Like Hitchcock's top motion pictures, Patrick McGilligan's lifetime of Hitchcock is a drama packed with revelation, graced by way of a vital love tale, darkish humor, and cliff-hanging suspense: a definitive portrait of the main inventive, and least understood, determine in movie history.

By John G. Neihardt

The well-known lifestyles tale of the Lakota healer and visionary, Nicholas Black Elk.

By Alan Goldsher, Ron Weisner

Even hardcore song enthusiasts don't be aware of the identify Ron Weisner . . . yet they need to. A high-powered supervisor for over 4 many years, Ron labored along Madonna, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield, invoice Withers, and, so much significantly, Michael Jackson. He observed the King of dad via his game-changing multi-platinum albums mystery and rancid the Wall. He watched M.J.'s prickly father Joe run roughshod over either his son and pros. He fought again because the attempted to lead Jackson in a musical course that will have derailed his profession. And he observed Michael endure via devastating press assurance that became the afflicted singer's international the wrong way up. that includes an creation from Quincy Jones and remark from Winwood, Knight, and a few behind-the-scenes checklist label energy agents, Weisner's illuminating memoir pay attention Out Loud underscores the harmful adjustments to the in the course of his forty-year occupation, together with the shift in concentration from inventive integrity to the pursuit of chilly tough numbers. It's an intimate glimpse into the track international from a guy with a prepared eye, sharp ears, and a tremendous center.

By Martin Popoff

Absolutely revised and up to date, Rush is a richly illustrated heritage of 1 of the world's maximum rock bands.

In 1974, a Canadian rock band known as Rush took the track scene by means of hurricane. during the Nineteen Seventies and raging into the Nineteen Eighties, the band grew a tidal wave of fans and produced such hit songs as "Limelight," "Subdivisions," and "Tom Sawyer." Inducted into the Canadian song corridor of repute in 1994 and the Rock and Roll corridor of repute in 2013, this innovative rock, difficult rock, and heavy steel band is destined to move down in background as mythical. The band maintains to make historical past today.

Rush: The Illustrated background is a completely up to date, richly illustrated background from prolific rock journalist and famous Rush authority Martin Popoff. The publication follows the world-conquering exploits of Rush band participants Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson from the band's formation in Toronto to their 40th anniversary social gathering and travel. Popoff's stellar heritage is complemented through LP experiences from a slate of extremely popular track writers, an intensive discography compiled via the writer himself, and greater than four hundred pictures and articles of memorabilia, from candid behind the curtain pictures and concert images to photo sleeves, gig posters, interval print advertisements, price tag stubs, behind the scenes passes, and extra. the result's a visually wonderful and authoritative evaluate befitting the rock band with the most committed fan bases ever.

By Maria Rosa Antognazza

Appears to be like a retail pdf from the publisher.

Of the entire thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated glossy philosophy, none lived an highbrow existence extra wealthy and sundry than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). educated as a jurist and hired as a counsellor, librarian, and historian, he made well-known contributions to common sense, arithmetic, physics, and metaphysics, but seen his personal aspirations as eventually moral and theological, and married those theoretical issues with politics, international relations, and an both wide variety of sensible reforms: juridical, fiscal, administrative, technological, clinical, and ecclesiastical. Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography not just surveys the entire breadth and intensity of those theoretical pursuits and sensible actions, it additionally weaves them jointly for the 1st time right into a unified portrait of this designated philosopher and the realm from which he got here. on the centre of the large variety of Leibniz's it appears miscellaneous endeavours, Antognazza finds a unmarried grasp undertaking lending cohesion to his terribly multifaceted life's paintings. in the course of the vicissitudes of his lengthy lifestyles, Leibniz tenaciously pursued the dream of a scientific reform and development of all of the sciences, to be undertaken as a collaborative firm supported through an enlightened ruler; those theoretical objectives have been in flip eventually grounded in a pragmatic target: the development of the human and thereby the occasion of the honour of God in His construction. in addition to tracing the threads of continuity that sure those theoretical and useful actions to this all-embracing plan, this illuminating research additionally lines those threads again into the highbrow traditions of the Holy Roman Empire during which Leibniz lived and during the broader highbrow networks that associated him to buyers in international locations as far away as Russia and to correspondents as a long way afield as China.