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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on more than 250 interviews, this meticulously researched history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s through three longtime kings of jazz-Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie-who opened America's eyes and souls to their magnificent music, writing the soundtrack for the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Film legend recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades-a heralded actor who's played the roles he wanted, unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed. Billy Dee Williams was born in Harlem in 1937 and grew up in a household of love and sophistication. As a young boy, he made his stage debut working with Lotte Lenya in an Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill production where Williams ended up...