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Political Suicide

Political Suicide

One-Night Stands with American History

One-Night Stands with American History

Richard Shenkman

Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death

Mrs. Kaplan and the Matzoh Ball of Death

Mark Reutlinger

Churchill's Hour

Churchill's Hour

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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Peter Boxall & Peter Ackroyd

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Stephen Rebello

All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted Love Songs

All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, and Other Assorted ...

Kenneth. Womack & Jason Kruppa

The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940

The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890-1940

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show ...

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed ...

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Thomas R. Martin

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age

Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the ...

Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing ...

James Poniewozik

Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture

Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens

The Beatles Are Here!: 50 Years After the Band Arrived in America, Writers, Musicians & Other Fans Remember

The Beatles Are Here!: 50 Years After the Band Arrived in America, ...

Penelope Rowlands

Beatles vs. Stones

Beatles vs. Stones

The Bee Gees: The Biography

The Bee Gees: The Biography

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales From the World of Classical Music and Beyond

Beethoven's Skull: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales From ...

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show

Behind the Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight ...

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, ...

Daniel de Visé

Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil

Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil

Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest ...

William J. Mann

Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading

Robert Christgau

Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream

Brought to You By: Postwar Television Advertising and the American ...

Lawrence R. Samuel

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene ...

The Business of Time: A Global History of the Watch Industry

The Business of Time: A Global History of the Watch Industry

Pierre-Yves Donzé

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall & Redemption of the Beach Boys' ...

Peter Ames Carlin

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and ...

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

Community Media: International Perspectives

Community Media: International Perspectives

Linda K. Fuller

The Complete Works of Aristophanes

The Complete Works of Aristophanes

Conversations With Scorsese

Conversations With Scorsese

Richard Schickel

The Covert War Against Rock: What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones,

The Covert War Against Rock: What You Don't Know About the Deaths ...

Alex Constantine

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Crunching Gravel: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties

Robert Louis Peters

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American Dream

A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale: Once Upon an American ...

Tracey L. Mollet

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

De Niro: A Life

De Niro: A Life

Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

The Devil Finds Work

The Devil Finds Work

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of ...

Philip Rawlings

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night ...

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight From Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock

Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight From Haight-Ashbury to ...

Richie Unterberger

Elvis Presley: A Southern Life

Elvis Presley: A Southern Life

Joel Williamson

Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

Establishing Shots: An Oral History of the Winnipeg Film Group

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries

Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, ...

Fifty Shades of Crimson: Robert Fripp and King Crimson

Fifty Shades of Crimson: Robert Fripp and King Crimson

Film Comedy and the American Dream

Film Comedy and the American Dream

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970

Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, ...

Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry

Michael Glover Smith & Adam Selzer

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost ...

Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day

Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally ...

Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor

Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola

Gene D. Phillips

Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made

Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck ...

Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Including Masterpieces, Oddities, Guilty Pleasures and Classics (With Just a Fe

Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Including ...