Benjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars. This first biography of Orr draws together interviews with over 120 of his family members, friends, and music associates, as well as many never-before-seen photos, to reveal an intimate portrait of one of classic rocks greatest talents.
Dr Jafar Yaghoobi experienced the terrible ordeal of being a political prisoner in Iran between 1984 and 1989. Against all odds, he survived the wave of state-sponsored killings. This is a memoir of Dr Jafar Yaghoobi that describes the events of that terrible time combined with testimonials of other prisoners.
Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898, Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the ......
Leaders collects in one place for the first time the remarkably personal and distinct stories from Pangbourne College of the courageous men and women in war and peace - accounts that are in danger of being forgotten today. Based on original research and neglected first-person accounts, it covers the period 1917-2020, with a particular emphasis on ......
In this unique oral history, a historic document specialist records the stories told to him by people who witnessed many of history's most famous events. The past comes alive and fascinates not only history buffs but anyone who likes a good story.
History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins and describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. His was a life well lived in truly turbulent times.
Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award and the Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, Last Cavalier is the never-before-told story of the remarkable life and career of John A. Lomax, pioneering American folklorist, canny businessman, influential educator, and patriarch of an extended family of artists, performers, and scholars.
When The Land of Journeys' Ending was first published in 1924, The Literary Review warned, ''This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry.'' In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the ......
