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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century's rapidly expanding consumer society. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Offers a wide-ranging perspective of the criminal underworld from the 1850s to the present, providing illustrated histories of dozens of infamous individuals who have left their mark on society -- in the darkest ways possible."--
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Wade Weissmann has a passion for and commitment to creating significant and highly detailed luxury residences for clients who want homes where memories can be made and each generation can add their mark. WWA aims to create a certain quality that captures romance, beauty, and history no matter what or where the project is. Every place has a unique identity, with specific resources and limitations; yet the unifying element is clients who want to stretch...
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise's husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole. After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our greatest city. From Jonas Bronck, who bought land from the local Native Americans, to the formerly gang-wracked South Bronx that gave birth to hip-hop, Frazier’s loving exploration is a moving tour de force about the polyglot culture that is America today. During the Revolution,...
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