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  • Just for a Thrill
    James L Dickerson
    Along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Lillian 'Lil' Hardin (1898-1971) was arguably the third most crucial figure in the creation of popular jazz. Born in Memphis, with strong roots in Mississippi, Lil was, by her early twenties the most sought-after jazz pianist in Chicago, playing first with Freddie Keppard’s watershed Creole Jazz Band and later with King Oliver’s wo...
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    44,40 €

  • Memphis Going Down
    James L. Dickerson
    For over one hundred years, Memphis, Tennessee, was been the center of musical innovation for American popular music. From W. C. Handy to Alberta Hunter and Lil Hardin Armstrong, in the early years, to B. B. King in the late 1940s, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1950s, to Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs, and Al Green in the 1960s and early 1970s, Mem...
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    27,40 €

  • North to Canada
    James L Dickerson
    March 29, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. It hardly seems possible that it has been nearly 50 years since the Vietnam War was at its zenith. In 1998 author James L. Dickerson went to Canada to meet with and interview Americans who had gone to Canada in opposition to the war in Vietnam. This is a revised and updated edition of ...
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    18,98 €

  • Yellow Fever
    James L Dickerson
    Long before Covid-19 ever terrorized the American public there was an even more insidious disease called Yellow Fever that brought America to its knees-and it is today threatening a deadly comeback thanks to the acceleration of climate change. In a vividly told narrative, filled with poignant and graphic scenes culled from historical archives, James L. Dickerson, author of Cirr...
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    20,03 €

  • Chips Moman
    James L Dickerson
    Chips Moman’s genius began in the studio, where he instituted technical innovations that forever changed the recording industry, but it expanded from there with an uncanny ability to recognize hit songs when he heard them as rough demos, and then blossomed with an unsurpassed string of hit records. He rescued Elvis Presley’s career with his recordings of 'Suspicious Minds' and ...
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    23,70 €

  • Devil’s Sanctuary
    Alex A Alston / James L Dickerson
    The African-American struggle for freedom has brought attention to the violence that historically has terrorized the descendants of slaves for generations. The beatings, the lynching, shootings, the rapes, have occurred all across America, but nowhere have they been more notorious than in the State of Mississippi. And nowhere have the perpetrators of such violence been granted ...
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    23,47 €

  • Love on the Rocks
    James L Dickerson
    Katherine Summer had everything in life that she wanted—a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, an incredible island home in the Thousand Island region of the St. Lawrence River, an incredibly bright cocker spaniel named Bessie, and a wildly successful career as a landscape artist.All that changed in an instant, when a boating accident seemingly took the lives of her husband an...
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    13,94 €

  • Inside America’s Concentration Camps
    James L. Dickerson / James LDickerson
    Racism and xenophobia have long challenged democracy, a battle played out dramatically in the concentration camps built, staffed, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. Government. The camps first appeared in the nineteenth century with the imprisonment of Native Americans, then returned during World War II with the roundup of Japanese Americans (most ...
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    23,72 €

  • Ashley Judd
    James L. Dickerson
    Although her mother, Naomi, and older sister, Wynonna, rose to fame as the country music duo the Judds, Ashley Judd took her own road to stardom, becoming one of Hollywood's most successful actresses. Discover the inside story of the actress who has starred in movies such as 'Heat,' 'Kiss the Girls,' 'High Crimes' and 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.'  Journey w...
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    22,39 €

  • That’s Alright, Elvis
    Scotty Moore / James L. Dickerson
    Memoir of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley’s first guitarist and manager.When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillip’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Sam asked guitarist Scotty and bass player Bill Black to work with Elvis-and the music they created as the Blue Moon Boys launched what became known as rock ’n’ roll. Scotty and Bill...
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    27,27 €

  • Memphis Going Down
    James L. Dickerson / James LDickerson
    For over one hundred years, Memphis, Tennessee, has been the center of musical innovation for American popular music. From W. C. Handy to Alberta Hunter and Lil Hardin Armstrong, in the early years, to B. B. King in the late 1940s, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis in the 1950s, to Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs, and Al Green in the 1960s and early 1970s, Mem...
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    18,74 €

  • Mojo Triangle
    James L. Dickerson / James LDickerson
    The winner of the 2006 IPPY Award for best non-fiction book from the South (presented by the Independent Publishers Association), the Mojo Triangle tells the true story—at long last—of the birth of the blues, rock 'n' roll, country and jazz!Draw a straight line from New Orleans to Nashville, then over to Memphis and back down to New Orleans, following the curves of the ...
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    18,69 €

  • Dixie's Dirty Secret
    James L. Dickerson
    When Dixie's Dirty Secret was first published in 1998, it was the first book to ever expose the super-secret Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and the involvement of the government, the right-wing news media, and organized crime in combating the civil rights movement. This newly published edition, with nearly 20 years of new information, is a revised,  greatly expanded ana...
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    33,96 €

  • Nicole Kidman
    James L. Dickerson
    Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman, a breathtaking beauty and versatile performer, is ranked by most movie insiders as one of the top actresses of her generation. But, for years, her professional success was offset by her mother's battle with breast cancer and a shattering divorce from Tom Cruise, with whom she had adopted two children.The divorce turned her world upside dow...
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    26,14 €

  • Adoptive and Foster Parent Screening
    James L. Dickerson / Mardi Allen
    Clinical psychologist Mardi Allen and James Dickerson, a former social worker who has placed hundreds of children into adoptive and foster homes, have combined the best of psychology and social work experience into a definitive guide for screening adoption and foster home applicants. ...
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    89,46 €

  • Country Music’s Most Embarrassing Moments
    James Dickerson / James L. Dickerson
    A collection of stories shared by 25 country music stars in which they were embarrassed, often in the middle of a performance. Country music fans will enjoy this look at the occupational hazards of being an entertainer. ...
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    6,85 €

  • Country Music’s Most Embarrassing Moments
    James L. Dickerson / James LDickerson
    A collection of stories shared by 25 country music stars in which they were embarrassed, often in the middle of a performance. Country music fans will enjoy this look at the occupational hazards of being an entertainer. ...
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    19,91 €