The complete history of one of the most long-lived andlegendary bands in rock history, written by its official historianand publicist a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads,and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of themost beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to evergrace American culture. The creative synchronicity among JerryGarcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron“Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the earlysixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for theDionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, theDead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitmentto exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journeythrough an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mentallandscapes. Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more thantwenty years, takes readers b
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American ofhis age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only aboy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was hisreal story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwidecelebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warrenexplains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as anarmy scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experienceinspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known asBuffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys,and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades,offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and aremarkably democratic version of its history. This definitivebiography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and thestartling history of the American West that drove him and hisperformers to the world stage.
A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and thegeneral of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle ofJune 25 and chronicles the sometimes striking similarities in thelives of both men. Reprint. LJ.
In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the firstauthoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset ofmillions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller andtouchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s mostsought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post.It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But thetrauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writingnovels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort ofproject. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented afifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest.Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success andgives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took itsshape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decadeto keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing sociallandscape. Now, nearly fifty years aft
Book De*ion Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years,four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an Americanclassic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about herprivate life in this absorbing and provocative memoir.A NEW YORKTIMES Notable Book of the YearA Book-of-the-Month-Club MainSelection Amazon.com From Publishers Weekly Beloved actress Hepburn's episodic autobiography spent 24 weekson PW 's hardcover bestseller list and was a BOMC main selection incloth. From Booklist From School Library Journal Katherine Hepburn is, at 84, still the positive, feisty,upper-class lady she portrayed in The Philadelphia Story . Herautobiography, clearly not ghostwritten, tells some stories of herlife but not all--she comes from a class that didn't let it allhang out. Her 27-year affair with Spencer Tracy is discussed withfond memories (the years together were to her ``absolutebliss'')--the idea that it was scandalous at the time doesn't
He was Nixon’s hatchet man. A jailed felon. And now, one ofthe most significant Christian leaders of our time. Here is hislife story. Charles Colson has become one of the most revered leaders of ourtime. His ministry outreach, Prison Fellowship, has swelled to40,000 volunteers working in 100 countries. His Angel TreeChristmas program provides presents to more than half a millionchildren of prison inmates every year. His daily radio broadcast,BreakPoint, airs daily on more than 1,000 radio outlets across thecountry. And his twenty books have sold more than five millioncopies in the U.S. But God had to work some mighty miracles to bring this unusualservant to this prominent place of service. After all, Colson wasknown as President Nixon’s “hatchet man.” His involvement in theWatergate conspiracy led him to prison–and then to a life-changingencounter with God. Now, noted author Jonathan Aitken has written the first biographythat compellingly presents a first-rate understanding
A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reiss’spanoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformedhimself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaumescaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as “EssadBey,” became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali andNino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with afatal secret. Reiss pursued Lev’s story across ten countries andfound himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surreal–andsometimes as heartbreaking–as his subject’s life.
