Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is a singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years.
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The Conscience of the Folk Revival
The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young (American Folk Music and Musicians Series)
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Israel G. Izzy Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information kiosk for all folk scene events. Among Young s first c...
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Nov 27, 2007Bound for Glory
The Hard-Driving, Truth-Telling, Autobiography of America's Great Poet-Folk Singer (Plume)
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First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all.Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country overnot by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar, thumb, and foot. During the journey of discovery that was his life, he composed and ...
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Jun 28, 2006Thucydides
The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is def...
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Oct 05, 2004The Oxford Book of English Verse
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Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by Arthur Quiller-Couch and selected anew in 1972 by Helen Gardner, has established itself as the foremos...
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Sep 20, 1994On the Road
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Jack Kerouac's groundbreaking novel—soon to be a major motion picture with a star-studded castIn what is sure to be one of the major cinematic events of 2012, Jack Kerouac's legendary Beat classic, On the Road, will finally hit the big screen. Directed by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries; Paris, Je T'Aime) and with a cast of some of Hollywood'...
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Sep 20, 1991From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture.Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley is the first biography to go past that myth and present an Elvis beyond the legend. Based on hundreds of interviews and nearly a decade of research, i...
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Sep 20, 1990