Overview :Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development f... Read More
Overview :Traces the life and career of the first Black actress to win an Academy Award, looks at her work in radio, and describes her relationships w... Read More
Overview :Martin Ritt has been hailed as the United States's greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley and I... Read More
Overview :In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year. Hits ... Read More
Overview :Colonel George M. Chinn's (1902--1987) life story reads more like fiction than the biography of a Kentucky soldier. A smart and fun-loving c... Read More
Overview :ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist Strikes... Read More
Overview :The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnes... Read More