"The definitive study of the mega-concert."--Rolling Stone

"Woodstock comes alive here, even if the music itself seems almost incidental to the backstage dramas." Publishers Weekly

Woodstock: the Oral History is the definitive, electrifying account of the rock festival that shook the world and defined a generation.

In 1969 four young men had a dream: to produce the greatest rock concert ever held. Little did the group--two budding entrepreneurs who really wanted to write sitcoms, a former head shop proprietor turned rock band manager, and a record company executive who smoked hash...

"One of the best storytellers who ever lived."--Arthur C. Clarke

In one dazzling decade, French novelist Jules Verne took readers places they'd never gone before. . .the age of dinosaurs. . .the undersea realm of Atlantis. . .the craters and crevices of the moon. . .and a whirlwind aerial tour of the planet earth

Though he penned his unforgettable yarns in French, Verne plunked big parts of them down in America. And he himself possessed an American sassiness, nerve, and sense of humor, so Americans have returned the compliment: we've released dozens of Hollywood films based on his...

The history of France's "hidden children" and of the French citizens who saved six out of seven Jewish children and three-fourths of the Jewish adult population from deportation during the Nazi occupation is little known to American readers. In The Hidden Children of France, Danielle Bailly (a hidden child herself whose family travelled all over rural France before sending her to live with strangers who could protect her) reveals the stories behind the statistics of those who were saved by the extraordinary acts of ordinary people. Eighteen former "hidden children" describe their lives...