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Jun. 13.

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music [Paperback]

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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Gioia (The History of Jazz) succeeds admirably in the daunting task of crafting a comprehensive history of the art form known as the blues, depicting the life story of the music from its cradle in the Mississippi Delta all the way to its worldwide influence on contemporary sounds. His sweeping examination focuses on the legends in detail, including Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and many more. He often deconstructs myths, such as the story that both Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson made midnight deals with the devil at the crossroads, and digs deep to clarify many murky stories, including untruths and wild speculations about the life and early death of Robert Johnson. His narrative follows the northern migration of the blues to Chicago, where Muddy Waters recorded for Chess Records, and along the way he analyzes the influence of Delta blues on Elvis, (more…)

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Jun. 13.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (DVD, Signed) [Unbound]

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (DVD, Signed)No description for this product could be found, but have a look over at Amazon for reviews and other information.

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Jun. 13.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1999)

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The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

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Aviva Kempner’s Peabody Award-winning documentary is about baseball like Field of Dreams is about cornfields. Kempner efficiently covers all the bases of Detroit Tigers Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg’s magnificent career with archival footage and talking heads, including family members, former teammates and baseball legends, broadcasters and sportswriters, and such unabashed fans as Alan Dershowitz and Walter Matthau. If this biography’s style is not remarkable, its subject certainly was. Greenberg, the son of immigrant parents, was a beacon of hope to Jews. As one observer notes, baseball was a way of “showing we were as American as everybody else.” To see one of their own succeed in the national pastime at a time of virulent anti-Semitism was a source of pride and inspiration. One lifelong fan, a rabbi, states, “He was the baseball Moses.” Winner of several critics association awards for Best Documentary, this is a stirring film for all seasons. (more…)

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Jun. 13.

The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, Updated & Revised (Film Critics of the New York Times) [Paperback]

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The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, Updated & Revised (Film Critics of the New York Times)

Amazon.com Review

Everyone knows that a good canon debate doesn’t get interesting until you reach the realm of the top 100. But by listing the top 1,000 movies, as the editors of The New York Times have done with this fat, readable collection of reviews, you get to skip all that huffing and puffing about quality and head straight for the fun. With a little elbow room, there’s space for ineffable stuff like Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and The Match Factory Girl. Room, too, for the nuance-free Mrs. Doubtfire and the free-falling Die Hard (which makes it, yep, right next to Diner). Pillow Talk squeezes in just one down from The Piano. What’s really new about this book, though, is that the reviews have been culled from the Times’s archive–reaching back to 1931. So you can read Vincent Canby reacting to Taxi Driver in 1976, just days after first seeing it: “The steam billowing up around the manhole cover in the street is a dead giveaway. Manhattan is a thin cement li (more…)

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