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America's Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers
ISBN: 9780060750985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For two generations of Americans, reading Ann Landers's daily column was as important as eating breakfast. For nearly fifty years an entire nation turned to this quick-witted, worldly-wise counselor for advice on everything from dinner etiquette to sex. But who was the woman behind the byline? Iowa-born Eppie Lederer was first hired by the Chicago Sun-Times to take over the daily advice column in 1955 -- and over the next half-century she helped shape the nation's social and sexual landscape. Award-winning journalist Rick Kogan was Ann Landers's last editor and close friend,... For two generations of Americans, reading Ann Landers's daily column was as important as eating breakfast. For nearly fifty years an entire nation ... |
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85,43 zł |
Big Bill of Chicago
ISBN: 9780810123199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with "the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon." This rollicking history traces the rise of William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson, Chicago's famous reform mayor, from his upper class roots to his years as a teenaged cowboy, from his fame as a star athlete to the years as a master politician in a world where the ward boss ruled and whiskey for the voters cost a quarter a shot. Big Bill of Chicago... Winner of 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award-Certificate of Excellence
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned h... |
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107,88 zł |
I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles
ISBN: 9780813125978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892--1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, "Go 'Way from My Window," basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."In "I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles," the...
Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892--1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles...
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164,39 zł |