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The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chronicles Barbara Barnes Sims’s career at Sun Records during a pivotal time at this recording mecca, as she darted from disc jockeys to distributors.... Læs mere
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Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi Roberts... Læs mere
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Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state.
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents both the powerful story of one man’s lifelong battle for racial justice and the very personal biography of a black professional and his family in the Jim Crow-era Louisiana.
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Bourbon Street: A History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A fascinating investigation into the mile-long urban space that is Bourbon Street, Richard Campanella’s comprehensive cultural history spans from the street’s inception during... Læs mere
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The Elephant of Silence: Essays on Poetics and Cinema (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it, contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind.
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Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Candid, poignant, and deeply researched, Melted Away is the true story of how a writer at midlife reclaims her agency, and an ardent plea to care for the planet by embracing collectivism and mutual aid.
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For Today: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A revelatory collection of poems set in the Gulf South, Carolyn Hembree’s For Today chronicles the experience of a woman who becomes a mother shortly after her father’s death and struggles to raise her child amid private and public turmoil.
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On the Overnight Train: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collects a lifetime of thought and writing by Alice Friman, presenting poems of passion and permission, gravity and humour, alongside a great deal of truth telling peppered with the salt of invention.
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The Army Under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A groundbreaking study focusing on the political debates over the size and use of military forces in the United States during the... Læs mere
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In Ghostlight: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A long-awaited second collection of original poems by Ryan Wilson that considers the haunting of the contemporary mind. With virtuosic formal variety and masterful craft, these poems... Læs mere
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How to Drown a Boy: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A debut collection of poems by J. Bruce Fuller, that investigates how boyhood and fatherhood entwine to create cycles that mimic decaying and dangerous natural surroundings. The... Læs mere
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