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Jazz; new perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's ... - Nat Hentoff, Albert J. McCarthy - Google Books
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The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 - Paul Robeson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=H0k2fhNWzwAC&pg=PA286
The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of this major biography breaks new ground.The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the…
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Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America - Christopher S. Parker, Matt A. Barreto - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=hDUiFG6dficC&pg=PA55&dq=Tea-party+enemy+obama&hl=de&sa=X&ei=kpxZUoHbK4mN0wXAwoG4Aw&ved=0CDQQ6AEw
Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative…
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The Rich and how They Got that Way: How the Wealthiest People of All Time ... - Cynthia Crossen - Google Books
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What does Bill Gates have in common with Ghenghis Khan? How about Pope Alexander VI, English inventor Richard Arkwright, and Hetty Green, the "Witch of Wall Street" in the 19th century? They were all among the richest people in history. In this book, a…
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Xerxes: A Persian Life - Richard Stoneman - Google Books
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The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at…
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Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life - Michael Schumacher - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=S1irH2JbEgoC&pg=PA393&dq=coppola+interview+peggy+sue&hl=de&ei=QzYOTuqSIsTEtAaL3pzKDg&sa=X&oi=boo
Beginning with his birth in 1939 to Italian-American parents, through his early years as a maverick director and screenwriter, right up to his legal victory over Warner Bros in 1998, this book explores Coppola's professional development into one of the…
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Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany - Ika Hügel-Marshall - Google Books
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Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an «occupation baby», born…
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From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life - Bill Crow - Google Books
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In the 1950s, New York City's Birdland was the center of the world of modern jazz--and a revelation to Bill Crow, a wet-behind-the-ears twenty-two-year-old from Washington State. Located on Broadway between 52nd and 53rd streets, the club named for the…
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The Politics of Memory: Looking for Germany in the New Germany - Jane Kramer - Google Books
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In the Politics of Memory Jane Kramer surveys the moral and political landscape of today's Germany, where the reunification of East and West has brought into conflict two vastly different memories of what it means to "be" German.These essays cut straight…
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Finding Her Voice: Women in Country Music, 1800-2000 - Mary A. Bufwack - Google Books
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After its initial publication in 1993, Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann's Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music quickly became an essential book for country music scholars and fans. Now back in print, with updated material, an…