wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song
ISBN: 9780060959562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, -Strange Fruit- is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take on a life of their own in this revealing account of the song and the struggle it personified. Strange Fruit not only chronicles the civil rights movement from the '30s on, it examines the lives of the beleaguered Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, the white Jewish schoolteacher and communist... Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, -Strange Fruit- is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the... |
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74,77 |
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When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy
ISBN: 9780805242553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,81 |
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Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink
ISBN: 9780375726194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men a black American and a Nazi German hero and depicts the extraordinary buildup to their legendary 1938 rematch. Vividly capturing the outpouring of emotion that the two fighters brought forth, Margolick brilliantly illuminates the cultural and social divisions that they came to...
Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling ...
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cena:
98,44 |
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At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadilloes of American Lawyers
ISBN: 9780671887872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The lawyer's trade--from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders--is examined with rigor, insight, and wit by one of America's foremost commentators on the law, New York Times columnist David Margolick.
The lawyer's trade--from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders--is examined with rigor, insight, and wit by one of America's foremost commentat...
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cena:
90,36 |