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  • Becoming Belafonte

    Black Artist, Public Radical

    by Judith E. Smith ...
    Series series Discovering America
    This biography of the singer, actor, and fearless anti-racism activist is "so engaging that readers will crave a sequel" ( Kirkus Reviews).A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Ten-Cent Plague

    The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

    by David Hajdu ...
    This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Oscar Wars

    A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

    by Michael Schulman ...
    The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes Hollywood drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Village

    400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village

    by John Strausbaugh ...
    Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood.From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies; from Abstract Expressionism and beatniks, to Stonewall and AIDS, the connecting narratives of The ... Read more

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  • The Third Coast

    When Chicago Built the American Dream

    by Thomas L. Dyja ...
    **Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland PrizeA critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture**Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Guest List

    How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication—from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    From the 1920s to the early 1960s, Manhattan was America's beacon of sophistication. From the theatres of Broadway to the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel to tables at the Stork Club, intelligence and wit were the twinned coins of the realm. Alexander Woolcott, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, the Lunts and Helen Hayes ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

    Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati

    by David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim ...
    Series series The Intellectual Devotional Series
    In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in this indispensable series. In The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim explore the fascinating world of contemporary culture to offer 365 daily readings that provide the essential references needed ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams

    The Story of Black Hollywood

    by Donald Bogle ...
    In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • On Highway 61

    Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

    by Dennis McNally ...
    On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History

    by Manny Pacheco ...
    Nothing grabs the mind like a finely crafted film. Memorable lines strike an instant impression, and classic imagery provides celluloid art for us to enjoy time and again. Manny Pacheco has studied motion pictures and understands Hollywood at its core. Through his love and passion for the stars of yesteryear, he presents a review of timeless films, which also uniquely capture seldom told accounts ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Hollywood Left and Right

    How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

    by Steven J. Ross ...
    In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • With Amusement for All

    A History of American Popular Culture since 1830

    by LeRoy Ashby ...
    Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment in the United States, covering everything from the penny press to Playboy, the NBA to NASCAR ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD