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Biography and Memoir June 2018
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The Moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
by Patricia O'Toole
An in-depth portrait of the 28th President argues that controversial decisions by the Wilson administration established unprecedented levels of American overreach in foreign affairs, examining the challenges, leadership, failures and health setbacks that shaped the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and founded the League of Nations. By the award-winning author of When Trumpets Call
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President Carter : the White House years
by Stuart Eizenstat
The former U.S. Ambassador and author of Imperfect Justice presents an insider's history of the Carter Administration that shares insights into the 39th President's admirable character and the achievements that positively reshaped the country and the world long after Carter's single term
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It's a Long Story: My Life by Willie NelsonThe iconic Country Music Hall of Fame artist and 10-time Grammy winner shares the story of his personal life and career, from his early ambitions and indelible relationships through his bankruptcy and founding of Farm Aid. (biography & autobiography). 350,000 first printing.
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"Along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Lillian "Lil" Hardin (1898-1971) was arguably the third most crucial figure in the creation of popular jazz, but today her important contributions are almost entirely unknown." "Born in Memphis, Lil was, by her early twenties, the most sought-after jazz pianist in Chicago, playing first with Freddie Keppard's watershed Creole Jazz Band and later with King Oliver's world-famous Creole Jazz Band. She was already well established in Chicago as a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader before she met and married Louis Armstrong in 1924." "Music writer and investigative journalist James L. Dickerson chronicles Lil's many musical achievements, which are all the more remarkable when one considers the patriarchal resistance that women in all professions - jazz included - confronted in twentieth-century America." "But Just for a Thrill, based on original research and interviews, is more than a biography of a jazz pioneer. It is also a story of love found and lost, for though Louis divorced her and remarried, she never forgot him. Lil Hardin Armstrong died of a heart attack while performing during a tribute to Louis in 1971."--BOOK JACKET.
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Heavier than heaven [sound recording] : a biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. CrossMP3 CD. Based on four years of research, more than four hundred interviews, and exclusive access to Kurt Cobain's unpublished diaries, a portrait of the late rock-and-roll star follows his early days in a trailer, his rise to fame, his relationship with wife Courtney Love, and his tragic suicide. Read by Lloyd James.
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Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter GuralnickA revealing portrait of the influential gospel singer and songwriter covers his early experiences as a choir boy, the impact of the civil rights movement on his career, and the mystery surrounding his death, in an account that also describes his relationships with several contemporaries.
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