John Wayne's World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties
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In a film career that spanned five decades, John Wayne became a U.S. icon of heroic individualism...
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Timothy J. O'Brien and David Ensminger
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In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall...
Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control
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What drug provides Americans with the greatest pleasure and the greatest pain? The answer, hands...
Hope: Entertainer of the Century
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With his topical jokes and his all-American, brash-but-cowardly screen character, Bob Hope was the...
In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey
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Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of...
The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery's Early Life
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The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography...
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The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
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From the mid-1930s to the late 1950s, Mexican cinema became the most successful Latin American...
Isle of Man Transport: A Colour Journey in Time: Steam Railways, Ships, and Road Services Buses
Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts
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This stunning selection of colour views, dating from the period 1953-1980, includes most of the...
The Silver Age of DC Comics
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With super heroes nearly extinct at the start of the 1950s, DC Comics reignited the fire that would...
Assembled: Transform Everyday Objects into Robots
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Assembled features 23 contemporary assemblage art projects by international artists through "before...