New York in the Fifties

Reducere. The book is a memoir of Dan Wakefield's move to New York City in the 1950s.

Reducere. The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what...

Contributor(s): Author: Jane PauleyJane Pauley, "America's baby boomer" (Tom Brokaw), offers an inspirational guidebook "chockablock with keen insi...

Reducere. In 1991, John has a good life running the numbers racket In Brooklyn and Staten Island until his mob boss, Louie the Finger, pulls him out with a l...

Reducere. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into ...

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors. Plummer tells how "this young bilingual wastrel, incurably r...

Reducere. New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Very Oral History With a New Introduction by the Author "We Killed shines in its details and its anecdo...

Reducere. Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal ...

Filled with beautiful full-color photographs and detailed illustrations, an irresistible collection profiling 150 of the latest trends in contempor...

This scrupulously researched, meticulously rendered collection spotlights multiple generations of a family for each decade of the twentieth century...

Reducere. The fourth book of poetry by this New York City poet, Walter Holland's Reconstruction is a work of poetic reconciliation with his boyhood in Lynchb...

Reducere. Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent brings together a stellar roster of ballplayers from the 1950s and 1960s in this wonderful ne...

The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Indie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a mem...

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, ...

The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, an...

"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"--PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capot...

Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the...

Reducere. A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world--from Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The So...

Kang Myongku ran his first marathon when he was in his fifties and then decided to run an ultra-marathon across the US from California to New York ...

The latest thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages and The Other Mother, a story of mistaken identities ...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that shou...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President James Garfield was shot in 1881, nobody expected Vice President Chester A. Arthur to become a strong and effective presid...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that shou...