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Marianne Faithfull tells the story of her life at the center of rock 'n' roll. She takes on Dylan, Hendrix, Jagger, and other luminaries, and gives a portrait of what the time--with its excesses and successes--was really like. AUTHOR: David Dalton, Marianne Faithfull
PUBLISHER: Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | A Knight of Another Sort by Gary Deneal
In 1913 Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. He was charismatic, with an easygoing manner and a cavalier generosity that made him popular. The stuff of legend, he was part monster, part Robin Hood. In the early days, he would emerge from his restaurant/ saloon in tiny Ledford in Saline County with a cigar box full of coins and throw handfuls in the air for the children. Echoing the consensus on Birger, an anonymous gang member called him enigmatic , noting that he had a wonderful quality, a heart of gold. There in Harrisburg sometimes he`d support twelve or fifteen families, buy coal, groceries.... (But) he had cold eyes, a killer`s eyes. He would kill you for something somebody else would punch you in the nose for . Drawing from the colorful cast of the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be-dead -- a state shared by many associated with Birger and his enemies, the Shelton gang -- DeNeal re-creates Prohibition-era southern Illinois. He depicts the fatal shootout between S. Glenn Young and Ora Thomas, the battle on the Herrin Masonic Temple lawn in which six were slain and the Ku Klux Klan crushed, and the wounding of Williamson County state`s attorney Arlie O. Boswell. As the gang wars escalated and the roster of corpses lengthened, the gangsters embraced technology. The Sheltons bombed Birger`s roadhouse, Shady Rest, from a single-engine airplane. Both Birger and the Sheltons used armored vehicles to intimidate their enemies, and the chatter of machine gun fire grew common. The gang wars ended with massive arrests, trials, and convictions of gangsters who once had seemed invincible. Charlie Birger was convicted of themurder of West City mayor Joe Adams and sentenced to death. On April 19, 1928, he stood on the gallows looking down on the large crowd that had come to see him die. It`s a beautiful world , Birger said softly as he prepared to leave it. AUTHOR: Gary Deneal
PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Pocket Dictionary
Each DK Pockets guide is a feast of information in a handy size. Every page is filled with fascinating facts and full-color photography for quick reference and stimulating reading.
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The File by Timothy A. Garton
Description not available.In a chilling account of Cold War espionage and treachery, the author of The Uses of Adversity describes his discovery that the East German secret police had compiled a secret file on his activities and of his efforts to track down the truth about that file. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT. AUTHOR: Timothy A. Garton
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Lives of the Noble Grecians & Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden
Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail. AUTHOR: Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Black & Red by Morgan Monceaux, Ruth Katcher
Thirty-seven portraits by self-taught artist Morgan Monceaux--in paint, markers, pastels, and collage--of African-American and Native American heroes of the early West. AUTHOR: Morgan Monceaux, Ruth Katcher
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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