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A Terry Teachout Reader by Terry Teachout 9780300098945
Booksplease Price: $104.37Terry Teachout, one of our most acute cultural commentators, here turns his sharp eye to every corner of the arts world-music, dance, literature, theater, film, TV, and the visual arts. This... -
The Skeptic by Terry Teachout 9780060505295
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505295Author Terry TeachoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher... -
City Limits by Terry Teachout 9780743246880
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20The Wall Street Journal drama critic and Missouri native remembers growing up in small-town America, paying tribute to the memories he developed and people he met while revealing the reasons he... -
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout 9780547386379
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547386379Author Terry TeachoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit by H. L. Mencken 9780801885495
Booksplease Price: $60.17With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's... -
Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism by Whittaker Chambers
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.07Whittaker Chambers is one of the most controversial figures in modern American history a former Communist spy who left the party, testified against Alger Hiss before the House Un-American Activities... -
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser 9781937295028
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.02Some years ago, Frank Hauser, then a retired freelance director, and writer Russell Reich, his former student, self-published Notes on Directing in hardcover. It was immediately acclaimed as "a... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875804675
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian 9780393541632
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.38Captain Jack Aubrey arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the British Navy. He and his friend, surgeon Stephen Maturin,... -
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word by Regina Buccola 9780875806853
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition... -
Symphonic Aspirations: German Music and Politics, 1900-1945 by Karen Painter 9780674026612
RRP: $86.37Booksplease Price: $70.46Can music be political? Germans have long claimed the symphony as a pillar of their modern national culture. By 1900, the critical discourse on music, particularly symphonies, rose to such prominence... -
Commentary in American Life by Murray Friedman 9781592131051
Booksplease Price: $74.92Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 as a monthly journal of "significant thought and opinion, Jewish affairs and contemporary issues," Commentary magazine has through the years had a... -
Commentary in American Life by Murray Friedman 9781592131068
Booksplease Price: $32.66Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 as a monthly journal of "significant thought and opinion, Jewish affairs and contemporary issues," Commentary magazine has through the years had a... -
You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat by Gene Lees 9780300089653
Booksplease Price: $72.58In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King"... -
The Critics Say...: 57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future by Matt Windman 9780786496709
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27What will happen to the theater when there are no more critics? With the decline of print media and the rise of online journalism, theater critics are facing hard times. As their influence fades,... -
Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy by Paula Marantz Cohen
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $26.73An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy"Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable-and uncommonly timely. Especially... -
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn 9780472116751
Booksplease Price: $92.08New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history.The men and women who participated... -
Sinatra! the Song Is You by Will Friedwald 9781613737705
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $23.45Frank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his... -
Beethoven: The Music and the Life by Lewis Lockwood 9780393326383
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.59This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and... -
Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friedwald 9780190882044
RRP: $43.20Booksplease Price: $38.78One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of... -
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Peter Pettinger
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.05A comprehensive biography of the brilliant jazz composer and pianist Bill Evans This enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans (1929-1980), one of the most influential of all... -
The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts by Charity Tillemann-Dick 9781501102325
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $14.02In this "heartrending, passionate, and surprisingly humorous account of the conjunction between art and death" (Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author), acclaimed opera singer Charity... -
The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen by Walter Rimler
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27"Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a... -
The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen by Walter Rimler 9780252083921
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49"Over the Rainbow," "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a... -
Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L. Jeffers
Booksplease Price: $108.32This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, long-time editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the... -
Notes of a Pianist by Louis Moreau Gottschalk
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $37.22Notes of a Pianist chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau... -
Schoenberg's New World by Sabine Feisst
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $42.23The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on... -
Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism by Joan Acocella 9780803210462
Booksplease Price: $37.58Expanding on her absorbing and controversial 1995 New Yorker article, Joan Acocella examines the politics of Willa Cather criticism: how Cather's work has been seized upon and often distorted by... -
![Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician [2 volume set] - Revised edition by Tully Potter 9780907689782](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5091776/5090954/9780907689782__69563.1723086359.jpg?c=1 "Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician [2 volume set] - Revised edition by Tully Potter 9780907689782")
Adolf Busch: The Life of an Honest Musician [2 volume set] - Revised edition by Tully Potter 9780907689782
RRP: $187.05Booksplease Price: $160.55Monumental biography of one of the major musicians of the twentieth century. Revised edition: Adolf Busch (1891-1952) was an all-round musician and a moral beacon in troubled times. As first... -
Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges by Con Chapman
Booksplease Price: $38.70In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it... -
The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper by Frederic B. Hill 9781538122167
Booksplease Price: $35.98In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the... -
After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance by Kenneth Hamilton 9780195178265
RRP: $62.55Booksplease Price: $50.80Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a... -
The Richard Burton Diaries by Chris Williams 9780300197280
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.36The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety"Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a... -
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford 9780674032569
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $37.02In 1967 the magazine Ramparts ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide range of citizen front groups intended to counter communist...