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Winner of the ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography The musical landscape of New York City and the United States of America would look quite different had it not been for William Schuman. Orpheus in Manhattan, a fully objective...

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The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and...

Josephine Lang (1815-80) was one of the most gifted, respected, prolific, and widely published song composers of the nineteenth century, yet her life and works have remained virtually unknown. Now, this carefully researched, compelling, and poignant...

The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write...

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Orgyan Chokyi (1675-1729) spent her life in Dolpo, the highest inhabited region of the Nepal Himalayas. Illiterate and expressly forbidden by her master to write her own life story, Orgyan Chokyi received divine inspiration to compose one of the most...

This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array...

Born into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112976Author Caille MillnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204g

One of the greatest American singers and actresses of her generation looks back on a magical and turbulent life spanning a half century of theatrical history from the golden age of the Broadway musical to the present day. A legend of the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062292513Author Nick NolteFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Joanna Cotler BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 425g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062088642Author Kenny RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 472g

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Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Alexis de Tocqueville dissects the legacy of the celebrated cultural observer. Joseph Epstein, distinguished literary historian and author of the bestselling Snobbery: The American Version, provides a fresh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061763175Author Logan MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

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Essays SOLITUDE FASCISM REBORN. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MANIFESTO FISCAL POLICY IN DISARRAYBook InformationISBN 9780359640126Author Thomas MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

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In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852911478Author Vera ChesnoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Queen Anne PressPublisher Queen Anne Press

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