Duke (Inbunden)
avTeachout, Terry
ISBN: 9781849546294 - UTGIVEN: 2013-11-19The story of the man who became a music legend.
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken (Häftad)
avTerry Teachout
ISBN: 9780060505295 - UTGIVEN: 200311When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines w[...]
Firebreak (Pocket)
avRichard Stark, Terry Teachout, Richard Stark
ISBN: 9780226770659 - UTGIVEN: 201108Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital - the days of cash[...]
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (Häftad)
avTerry Teachout
ISBN: 9780547386379 - UTGIVEN: 2010-10Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut his first record. Offstage he was w[...]
The Dud Avocado (Häftad)
avElaine Dundy, Terry Teachout
ISBN: 9781590172322 - UTGIVEN: 200706"The Dud Avocado "follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, s[...]
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Häftad)
avTerry Teachout
ISBN: 9781592408801 - UTGIVEN: 2014-11A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong"
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century--and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to underst[...]
