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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Deftly spanning decades and continents...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by the author of the contemporary classic Edie; Jean Stein influenced the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie : American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol 'superstar' Edie Sedgwick. Now, in West of Eden, Stein turns her lens toward the city Sedgwick came from--Los Angeles--and a mythic cast of fortune hunters and aspiring moguls whose quests for fame and power...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"In Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them. Many of their stories have never been broadcast or published by StoryCorps until now."--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
157 p. : ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The founder of StoryCorps, a national project that records, shares, and preserves the lives of Americans from all backgrounds, presents individuals' love stories from early dating to finding connections and lifelong commitment.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappearing amid rapid change, there is a risk that your family's personal stories, too, will be lost forever. In The Essential Questions, anthropologist Elizabeth Keating helps you to uncover the unique memories of your parents and grandparents and to create lasting connection with them in the process"--
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An oral history of the themes of war provides letters, photographs, and sketches from from U.S. veterans' who fought in World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
xxvii, 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the United States were rounded up and sent to desolate "relocation" camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In this poignant and bitter yet inspiring oral history, John Tateishi allows thirty Japanese Americans, victims of this trauma, to speak for themselves. And Justice for All captures the personal feelings and experiences of the...
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