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Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and ...

Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and ...

David Hajdu

Heroes and Villains is the first collection of essays by David Hajdu' award - winning author of The Ten - Cent Plague' Positively 4th Street' and Lush Life.
Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

David Bradbury

Down Beat. 1 March 1956. David Hajdu, Lush Life. London, 1997, p. 147. Arts, 1958. Collected in Andre Hodeir trans. Noel Burch, Towards Jazz, London 1965, p. 27. David Hajdu, Lush Life. London, 1997, p. 154. Nicholson, Portrait, p. 312-3.
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

David Hajdu

Through scrutiny of Strayhorn's private papers and more than five hundred interviews, Hajdu revives Strayhorn as one of the most complex and tragic figures in jazz history.
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

Love for Sale: Pop Music in America

David Hajdu

In Love for Sale, David Hajdu—one of the most respected critics and music historians of our time—draws on a lifetime of listening, playing, and writing about music to show how pop has done much more than peddle fantasies of love and sex ...
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It ...

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It ...

David Hajdu

The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told -- until The Ten-Cent Plague.
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It ...

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It ...

David Hajdu

Examines the influence of comic books on the evolution of American popular culture in the years between World War II and the emergence of television, focusing on the battle against comic books by church groups, community elite, and a right ...
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

David Hajdu

The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the ...
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob ...

David Hajdu

Tenth Anniversary Edition The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most ...
Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to ...

Comics for Film, Games, and Animation: Using Comics to ...

Tyler Weaver

David Hajdu, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008), p.110. 4. Gerard Jones, Men ofTomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth ofthe Comic Book (New  ...
Unsolved Problems in Number Theory

Unsolved Problems in Number Theory

Richard Guy

Bennett, Györy & Hajdu show that the product of consecutive members of a k- term A.P. is not a power for 4 ~ k < 11, except in cases where there is a common factor, as in 9. 18. 27.36 = 54°. In a 93-05-07 letter to Ron Graham, Nobuhisa Abe  ...
Calkins family in America

Calkins family in America

Kenneth Wayne Calkins

... 355 Darrel Earl: 277 Darrel I Lorraine: 306 Darwin: 369 Darwin J.: 294 Daryl Lewis: 399 David: 120 David: 26 David: 7, ... 352 David Farrington: 226 David Hiram: 225 David Hugh Atkins: 146 David Ingalls: 246 David Ingalls: 246,345 David ...
It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

It Came from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers

Francesco Borseti

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy; Director: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Writers: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver” (Screenplay) and Phil Groves (Screenplay “ Primal Urge”); Cinematographer: David Oliver Pfeil as “David Oliver”; Editor: Robert ...
Quicklet on David McNally and Karl Speak's Be Your Own ...

Quicklet on David McNally and Karl Speak's Be Your Own ...

Narielle Living

Sources. Brand Tool Box: The Team Dr. Chip Bell: Biography David McNally: The McNally Report, Volume 6 Issue 3 David McNally: Products David McNally: TransForm Corporation Premiere Speakers Bureau: David McNally Bio Consumer ...
The Perfect School

The Perfect School

Paul gGuzalski

“Mi names David Spark and I'm 'ere to do the electrics. David looked steadily into the middle-aged man's face and to be sure it was David Spark. “I don't remember asking for an electrician,” said David not convinced himself. For if he was 70, ...
The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman

The Best American Poetry 2009: Series Editor David Lehman

David Lehman

Series Editor David Lehman David Lehman David Wagoner. LANCE LARSEN. Why. do. you. keep. putting. animals. in. your. poems? I open windows to catch a glimpse of grace on the horizon, and in they sneak, coyotes and crows, pikas and  ...
Kingsport Speedway

Kingsport Speedway

David M. McGee

David M. McGee. ingsport s peedway David M. McGee K Copyright © 2015 by David M. McGee ISBN 978-1-4671-1465-3 Published.
David's Journey

David's Journey

David Brody

On December 4, 1999, David was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer.
The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American ...

The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American ...

John A Grigg

Kilby,“David Brainerd,” 180, 185, 190. 82. Richard Hasler, Journey with David Brainerd: Forty Days or Forty Nights with David Brainerd (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1975). 83. Hasler, Journey with David Brainerd, 7–9; Ronald M. Enroth, ...
Mind of a Killer: Blood Smoke

Mind of a Killer: Blood Smoke

DJS

All David has ever known is to take orders, now that the Government has been scrutinised, David is now in the cross hairs. Journey on a rollercoaster ride as David tell his side of the story.
David Wells' Psychic Secrets. David Wells

David Wells' Psychic Secrets. David Wells

David Wells

In his latest incredible work, former Most Haunted presenter David Wells examines real life experiences to uncover the extraordinary truth behind psychic events.
Research Methods for Clinical and Health Psychology

Research Methods for Clinical and Health Psychology

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Clark-Carter. and. David. F. Marks. AIMS OF THIS CHAPTER (i) To explain the relative merits of different research designs ... David Clark-Carter and David F Marks Intervention studies: design and analysis David Clark-Carter and David F Marks.
Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: ...

Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: ...

C. Gormley-Heenan

David McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles (Belfast: Blackstaff, 2000) p. 186. See David McKittrick, 'What are the options for peace?', The Independent (London), 14 February 1996. David Sharrock, 'Preserving the Union' ...
I Am David

I Am David

Anne Holm

. . This is the remarkable story of David's introduction to the world: sea, mountains and flowers, the colours of Italy, the taste of fruit, people laughing and smiling, all are new to David.
Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era

Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era

David Coates

Copyright © David Coates 2000 The right of David Coates to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act ... Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Coates, David.
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An ...

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An ...

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An Anthology William L. Andrews. David Bryant Fulton 1863 ❖ 1941 jeehyun lim David Bryant Fulton through fiction, journalism, and autobiographical writing, David. DAVID BRYANT FULTON.
Reports of the Heads of Departments to the Governor of ...

Reports of the Heads of Departments to the Governor of ...

Pennsylvania

No person having received a majority, the Board proceeded to a second vote ; when Mr. Strickland voted for David L. Scott. Mr. Scott " David L. Scott. Mr. Plumer " David L. Scott. So it was Resolved, That David L. Scott be and is hereby ...
Losing Everything

Losing Everything

David Lozell Martin

David Lozell Martin ... Data Martin, David Lozell. Losing everything / David Lozell Martin. p. cm. 1. ProLogUe thE MorE Lost i gEt, thE CLosErto hoME. Martin, David Lozell. 2. Authors, American—20th century—Biography. i. Title. PS3563.
Contemporary Authors: First revision

Contemporary Authors: First revision

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HOLMES, David Charles 1919- ( David Charlson) PERSONAL: Born August 18, 1919, in Spokane, Wash.; son of David Charlson and Maude (Bunce) Holmes; married Virginia Romar, July 15, 1944; children: Dian Carolyn, David C., ...
Second Sons

Second Sons

David Ylhainen

David Ylhainen. were other possibilities, and he was not quick to put a stamp on any of them. It seemed to him that if this guy ... Scanning the list, he let out a deep sigh when he saw the name he already knew would be on it: David Grafton.
Risk Effects in Elk (Cervus Elaphus): Behavioral and ...

Risk Effects in Elk (Cervus Elaphus): Behavioral and ...

David Alan Christianson

David Alan Christianson. ©COPYRIGHT by David Alan Christianson 2008 All Rights Reserved APPROVAL of a dissertation submitted by David Alan Christianson This.

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