by Site Owner | Jul 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater
By Kathleen Riley Oxford University Press, $27.95, 241 pages Kathleen Riley’s The Astaires: Fred and Adele chronicles the career of Fred Astaire and his sister and early partner Adele, before he was immortalized on the silver screen. Although Fred Astaire is a...
by Site Owner | May 23, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Music
By Daniel Beaumont Oxford University Press, $24.95, 206 pages Son House was one of the most important of the Delta blues guitarists. During the 1960’s, as a result of numerous blues re-issue recordings, an informal group of young white blues aficianados searched for,...
by Site Owner | Oct 5, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Only slave revolt in the North American colonies by Peter Charles Hoffer Oxford University Press, $19.95, 173 pages This is a history of the only slave revolt in the North American colonies, it happened in 1739, in South Carolina, and it only lasted for...
by Site Owner | Sep 7, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By E. Stanly Godbold, Jr., Oxford University Press, 29.95, 355 pages Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974 is the first installment of a two-part biography by E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. This book zeros in on the early years of Jimmy Carter and the...