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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Spitz provides a post-partisan biography of Ronald Reagan, our 40th President. A young man is born into poverty and raised by a pious mother and a reckless, alcoholic, largely absent father, he became a radio sportscaster, a Hollywood star, the Governor of California, and an icon President of the United States. Spitz doesn't flinch...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
983 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. The Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth--until now. This biography is the product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents.--From publisher description.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 557 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she touched...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
673 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
No one before or since has lived the rock star dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. Spitz separates the myth from the reality, starting with the opening notes of their first album as the band announced itself as a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of English folk music and hard-driving African-American blues. Taken together, Led Zeppelin's discography has spent an almost incomprehensible...
Author
Publisher
Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
2014 edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 454 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2014, the Woodstock Music Festival defined a generation. Yet, there was much more than peace and love driving that long weekend the summer of 1969. In [this book] ... Bob Spitz gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Woodstock, from its inception and the incredible musicians that performed to its scandals and the darker side of the peace movement. With a new introduction, as well as maps, set lists,...
