Chicago Review Press: 838 books
by Peter Goodchild
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader...
Dylan on Dylan
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In a 1969 conversation with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Bob Dylan proclaimed, "I don't give interviews." But in truth, he has spoken at length with print publications large and small and with broadcast media around the world, given numerous press conferences, and even answered listeners'...
Hendrix on Hendrix
Interviews and Encounters with Jimi Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Though many books have chronicled Jimi Hendrix’s brilliant but tragically brief musical career, this is the first to use his own words to paint a detailed portrait of the man behind the guitar. With selections carefully chosen by one of the world’s leading Jimi Hendrix historians, this work includes...
Journey to Chernobyl
Encounters in a Radioactive Zone
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people...
In Praise of Angels
A Novel of the Reconstruction Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The years after the Civil War were marked by bitter political fights betwen the Democrats and Radical Republicans over how to reunite the country, and a deeply divided group of newspapers shouting down their opponents. All claimed to be acting on behalf of the better angels of our nature that Lincoln...
Fighting to Serve
Behind the Scenes in the War to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Discharged in 2002 from the US Army under the provisions of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Alexander Nicholson was shocked to learn there was no group advocating DADT’s repeal that was reaching out to active military or veterans organizations. Nicholson believed the repeal effort needed spokespersons...
Clash on the Clash
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Clash thought they could change the world. They never did, but they created some of the greatest rock music of all time in the attempt.
Clash interviews were mesmerizing. Infused with the messianic spirit of punk, the Clash engaged with the press like no rock group before or since, treating...
Fleetwood Mac on Fleetwood Mac
Interviews and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning—their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points—when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege—Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and the band's 1977 album Rumours became...
Confidential Confidential
The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and...
Chicago by Gaslight
A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft.
by Jordan Raphael, Tom Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless...
Building Atlanta
How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was 12 years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. In the ensuing 50 years, Russell has continued to build and develop businesses,...
Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre
A Biography of the Doors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
From one of rock's greatest writers, Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre is the definitive biography of the Doors Spanning the entire history of the band, from the birth of its members to the deaths of those who have departed, this book will long remain the definitive history of a band that changed the history...
Storms
My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars-Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson-to the chaotic...