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Eoin Youngs anecdotal reminiscences about Bruce McLaren his great friend and compatriot will be compelling reading for fans of 1960s motor racing Drawing from his own memories interviews with Bruces inner circle the young kiwis letters home the magazine column they cowrote and contemporary newspaper reports Young recreates that golden era when racing drivers were mates and racing was fun
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Eoin Youngs anecdotal reminiscences about Bruce McLaren his great friend and compatriot will be compelling reading for fans of 1960s motor racing Drawing from his own memories interviews with Bruces inner circle the young kiwis letters home the magazine column they cowrote and contemporary newspaper reports Young recreates that golden era when racing drivers were mates and racing was fun
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Malcolm McLaren is the fascinating and definitive life of the controversial cultural iconoclast and visionary who overturned the worlds of art design fashion film media music politics and television in his ceaseless search for expression as a visual artist With unparalleled access Malcolm McLaren will draw on a vast array of firsthand sources from within his inner circle including family friends and those who knew him best Providing firsthand testimony about this complex multifaceted and often outrageous personality contributors include family members childhood friends fellow students and art school teachers as well as his lovers collaborators fans and peers from Steven Spielberg who employed McLaren as his Hollywood ideas guru and is providing the foreword Quentin Tarantino Marc Jacobs Bella Freud Greil Marcus and David Bailey to Richard Hell Johnny Rotten Boy George Lauren Hutton Chrissie Hynde and Dame Vivienne Westwood
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A definitive portrait of Kerouac relates the events of his life to a critical analysis of his fictional works
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Unfinished Blues Memories of a New Orleans Music Man celebrates New Orleans composer producer arranger educator and jazz ambassador Harold Battiste Jr Chasing the dream from New Orleans to Los Angeles and back Battiste thrived in the jazz blues and pop scenes The creative force behind a bevy of numberone hits Barbara George s I Know You Don t Love Me No More Joe Jones s You Talk Too Much Sam Cooke s You Send Me and the sage who launched the careers of Dr John and Sonny amp Cher Battiste worked behind the scenes of the music industry for more than half a century With Unfinished Blues his voice is heard unfiltered at last Battistes musical sensibilities were formed and his racial consciousness raised in the churches classrooms and jazz joints of New Orleans A graduate of Dillard University s music education program Battiste confronted discrimination as a teacher in Louisiana s segregated public school system In the early 1950s he founded All for One the nation s first African American musicianowned and operated record label His commitment to education and uplift has never wavered in recent decades he worked alongside lifelong friend and fellow musician Ellis Marsalis to build the renowned jazz studies program at the University of New Orleans He can count among his friends and protégés many of today s leading young jazz musicians Nicholas Payton Branford Wynton Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis Victor Goines Jesse McBride and other members of a next generation keeping the New Orleans sound alive
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Selected by Major General Pat Sargent Chief of the US Army Medical Service Corps for the Corps Chiefs Reading List May 2016A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps an area close to the DMZ James G Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and noncommissioned officers peasantclass farmers Buddhist bonzes shopkeepers scribes physicians nurses the mentally ill and even political operatives He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967 describing in impressive detail his experiences and those letters became the primary source for his memoir The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village killing more than 100 people and destroying their village the heartwrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnelravaged leg not be amputated and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority
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The quest for responsible government took place in turbulent times The very strange personality driving this quest Robert Baldwin comprises the stuff of narrative so compelling it seems at times less history than novel Baldwins intervention in Canadian history was momentous and in this account history is intertwined with Baldwins enigmatic private life Decades of research by historian Michael Cross has unearthed new insight into this highly complex troubled and exceptional man In Crosss exploration Baldwin inhabits an intricate emotional world entangled with reflections on past and future Cross narrative flows with elegant nonlinearity reflecting Baldwins own fluid psychological chronology the memory of his wife Eliza who died comparative young haunted Baldwins often distressed mental landscape In fact the first chapter may contain one of the biggest surprises in any recent historical biographytaking place a month after Baldwins death Even so the book is full of comedy and charm Cross is a delightfully polished writer with a remarkable knack for character Lord Sydenham is a coxcomb and a rake in the original sense of the words Lord Elgin is an unprepossessing little man but with steely determination a countenance stern in its frame of irongrey muttonchops Louis LaFontaine is handsome and charming but irritatingly pretentious Interactions with the deep thinking and dutybound Baldwin are at times chaotic collisions of markedly different personalitiesThe book covers events such as the War of 1812 the 1841 Union of the Canadas and mass migration of Irish famine refugees it also contains a detailed chronology portraits maps and paintings Here is not just a vision of an unsettled Canada that will take many readers aback but also an encounter with a fascinating very strange personality whose profound influence changed Canadian history forever
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Selected by Major General Pat Sargent Chief of the US Army Medical Service Corps for the Corps Chiefs Reading List May 2016A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps an area close to the DMZ James G Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and noncommissioned officers peasantclass farmers Buddhist bonzes shopkeepers scribes physicians nurses the mentally ill and even political operatives He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967 describing in impressive detail his experiences and those letters became the primary source for his memoir The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village killing more than 100 people and destroying their village the heartwrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnelravaged leg not be amputated and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority
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When Denny Hulme won the 1967 Formula 1 World Championship he jokingly asked Jim Clark to do the fame bit for him as he so disliked being in the spotlight Behind the wheel of a racing car however the selfeffacing New Zealander known affectionately as The Bear showed ferocious determination Racing was a passion This book charts his illustrious career which included eight Grand Prix victories and two CanAm sports car titles
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In 1969 Jack Kerouac died a premature death While his legendary lifestyle and unique creative talent made him a hero in his lifetime his literary influence has grown steadily since With Memory Babe a childhood nickname honoring Kerouacs feats of memory Gerald Nicosia gives us a complete biography of Jack Kerouacan honest discriminating and above all compassionate assessment This edition is enhanced by many rare photographs never before published
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Draws on previously untapped materials to chronicle Dalis early years his relationship with Garcia Lorca and Andre Breton his collaboration with Luis Bunuel on his first surrealist film and his tormented marriage to Gala
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Surrealist painter author filmmaker lecturer performance artist charlatan genius clown Salvador Dalí 19041989 once asked himself Where does the deep and philosophical Dalí begin and where does the loony and preposterous Dalí end This evenhanded but exacting biography based on interviews unpublished letters and previously unavailable archives explores the relationship between his eccentric life and the hallucinatory imagery of the paintings that like the soft watches have become twentiethcentury icons The author penetrates the artists selfmythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses his Catalan childhood his relationships with Garcia Lorca Bunuel Breton Picasso Miro de Chirico Man Ray Ernst and Eluard Dalís fixations phobias and Surrealist pranks and his bizarre marriage to Galamuse business manager nymphomaniac gold digger and finally tormentor With reproductions of sixteen Dalí paintings The Persistence of Memory offers an unrivaled tour of the absurd and haunting landscape of Dalís life
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When Denny Hulme won the 1967 Formula 1 World Championship he jokingly asked Jim Clark to do the fame bit for him as he so disliked being in the spotlight Behind the wheel of a racing car however the selfeffacing New Zealander known affectionately as The Bear showed ferocious determination Racing was a passion This book charts his illustrious career which included eight Grand Prix victories and two CanAm sports car titles
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A definitive portrait of Kerouac relates the events of his life to a critical analysis of his fictional works
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The quest for responsible government took place in turbulent times The very strange personality driving this quest Robert Baldwin comprises the stuff of narrative so compelling it seems at times less history than novel Baldwins intervention in Canadian history was momentous and in this account history is intertwined with Baldwins enigmatic private life Decades of research by historian Michael Cross has unearthed new insight into this highly complex troubled and exceptional man In Crosss exploration Baldwin inhabits an intricate emotional world entangled with reflections on past and future Cross narrative flows with elegant nonlinearity reflecting Baldwins own fluid psychological chronology the memory of his wife Eliza who died comparative young haunted Baldwins often distressed mental landscape In fact the first chapter may contain one of the biggest surprises in any recent historical biographytaking place a month after Baldwins death Even so the book is full of comedy and charm Cross is a delightfully polished writer with a remarkable knack for character Lord Sydenham is a coxcomb and a rake in the original sense of the words Lord Elgin is an unprepossessing little man but with steely determination a countenance stern in its frame of irongrey muttonchops Louis LaFontaine is handsome and charming but irritatingly pretentious Interactions with the deep thinking and dutybound Baldwin are at times chaotic collisions of markedly different personalitiesThe book covers events such as the War of 1812 the 1841 Union of the Canadas and mass migration of Irish famine refugees it also contains a detailed chronology portraits maps and paintings Here is not just a vision of an unsettled Canada that will take many readers aback but also an encounter with a fascinating very strange personality whose profound influence changed Canadian history forever
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With a New Preface by the Author First published in 1969 Notes on a Cowardly Lion has established itself as one of the bestever show business biographies Drawing on his fathers recollections and on the memories of those who worked with him John Lahr brilliantly examines the history of modern American show business through the long and glorious career of his fatherthe raucous lowcomic star of burlesque vaudeville the Broadway revue and musical Hollywood movies and the legitimate stage Here in rich detail is Lahr evolving from lowdialect comic to Ziegfeld Follies sophisticate hamming it up with the Scarecrow and Tin Woodsman on the set of The Wizard of Oz and debuting Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot in America which Kenneth Tynan called one of the most noble performances I have ever seen In the examination of Bert Lahrs chronic insecurity and selfabsorption the breakdown of his first marriage and the affectionate arms length he kept between himself and his adoring second family John Lahrs book also brings the reader closer than any other theater biography to the private torment of a great funny man This edition of the book includes the awardwinning essay The Lion and Me John Lahrs intimate reflections on family life with his distant brooding but lovable father A firstclass stylist John Lahr takes the reader beyond the magic of show business to a dazzling examination of how a performing self is constructed and staged before the paying customers Both as theater history and biography Lahrs book is superb
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Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ruled the West from the silver screen as the King of Cowboys and and Queen of the West Off screen this husband and wife duo raised a family and lived the Code of the West Now in this new biography named for their first feature film as a pair the Rogers family shares their memories of Roy and Dale and Trigger and other sidekicks on the silver screen and behind the scenes Fifty previously unpublished photographs are included
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