Ziegfeld and His Follies: A Biography of Broadway's Greatest Producer
Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson
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The name Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867--1932) is synonymous with the decadent revues that the legendary...
Rhythm is Our Business: Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express
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In the 1930s, swing music reigned, and the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra was the hottest and hippest...
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
Stewart Spencer and Martin Geck
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Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83)...
Strindberg: A Life
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Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser-August Strindberg was all...
Book of Mutter
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Writing is how I attempt to repair myself, stitching back former selves, sentences. When I am brave...
Sense of Occasion
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In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most...
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #3)
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By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on...
Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis...
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Britain's Special Air Service or SAS was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout...
Bernini: His Life and His Rome
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Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the...