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The Hangman's Companion

The Hangman's Companion

Dutch Oven Breakfasts

Dutch Oven Breakfasts

Maria's Girls

Maria's Girls

Isaac Sidel (6)

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Brute Force

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Category: History & Criticism

Life Its Ownself

Life Its Ownself

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the ...

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

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

The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture

Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture

The Trip to Jerusalem

The Trip to Jerusalem

Elizabethan Theater (3)

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

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

Philip Rawlings

I Lost It at the Movies

I Lost It at the Movies

Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture

Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American ...

Lewis A. Erenberg

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

Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade

Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade

William Goldman

"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

"The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings ...

Ruth Crawford Seeger & Larry Polansky

If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B Movie Actor

If Chins Could Kill, Confessions of a B Movie Actor

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Erich Auerbach & Willard R. Trask & Edward W. Said

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

King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson

King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson

Laurence Leamer

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Andy Kaufman: Wrestling With the American Dream

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

Stephen Fry & Tim Lihoreau

Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy

Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel ...

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Peter Boxall & Peter Ackroyd

Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

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

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

Jimmy Stewart: A Biography

My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music

My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original ...

Alice Randall & Carter Little & Courtney Little

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best and 20 Worst Recordings Ever Made

The Life and Death of Classical Music: Featuring the 100 Best ...

Norman Lebrecht

Community Media: International Perspectives

Community Media: International Perspectives

Linda K. Fuller

The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

The American Dream and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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

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

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

When Giants Walked the Earth

When Giants Walked the Earth

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New ...

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

M. K. Asante, Jr.

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 ...

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line

What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales From the Front Line

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion

Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion

Judith Tick & Paul E. Beaudoin

Street gang: the complete history of Sesame Street

Street gang: the complete history of Sesame Street

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup

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

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

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

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

Lawrence R. Samuel

Paul Newman: A Life

Paul Newman: A Life

The Road to Woodstock

The Road to Woodstock

A River Dies of Thirst

A River Dies of Thirst

Mahmoud Darwish

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records

I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family Stone

I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly & the Family ...

Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries

Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries

We're the Light Crust Doughboys From Burrus Mill: An Oral History

We're the Light Crust Doughboys From Burrus Mill: An Oral History

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals

David King Dunaway & Molly Beer

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Stephen Rebello

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, ...

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 ...

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure

My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep ...

The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 ...

Brian Morton & Richard Cook

Conversations With Scorsese

Conversations With Scorsese

Richard Schickel

Jeannie Out of the Bottle

Jeannie Out of the Bottle

The History of Jazz

The History of Jazz

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

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 ...