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A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan
Carl RollysonCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon st...
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Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Carol MageeCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagin...
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Ain''t There No More: Louisiana''s Disappearing Coastal Plain
Carl A. BrasseauxCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile ...
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Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950
Carole Ann KingCurrent price €42.99Original price €49.99Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Ter...
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Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950
Carole Ann KingCurrent price €63.63Original price €73.99Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Ter...
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Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
University Press of MississippiCurrent price €61.10Original price €62.99Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary ass...
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Ben Katchor
Benjamin FraserCurrent price €20.79Original price €25.99The recipient of a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, Ben Katchor (b. 1951) is a beloved comics artist with a career spanning four decades. Published in in...
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Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Fourth Edition
Steve CheseboroughCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50This acclaimed travel guide, hailed as the bible of blues travelers throughout the world, will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the interse...
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Chris Ware: Conversations
University Press of MississippiCurrent price €25.59Original price €31.99Virtuoso Chris Ware (b. 1967) has achieved some noteworthy firsts for comics. The Guardian First Book Award for Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on...
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Conversations with Barry Hannah
University Press of MississippiCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99Between 1972 and 2001, Barry Hannah (19422010) published eight novels and four collections of short stories. A master of short fiction, Hannah is c...
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Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer''s Journey
Bob AvianCurrent price €51.32Original price €58.99Tony and Olivier Award-winning Bob Avian's dazzling life story, Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey, is a memoir in three acts. Act I r...
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Discovering Cat Island: Photographs and History
John CuevasCurrent price €38.99Original price €49.99Cat Island, just off the Mississippi Gulf Coast shoreline, has been home to some of the most dramatic events and remarkable stories in the nation's...
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Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawfords March to Stardom
Robert DanceCurrent price €36.65Original price €46.99Robert Dances new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career andwhile not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal lifefocuses...
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Flight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy
James NolanCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Flight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan, a fifth-generation New Orleans native, offersup...
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Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor: From Moscow to Morocco and Paris to the Persian Gulf
John HailmanCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99In his fifth book, John Hailman recounts the adventures and misadventures he experienced during a lifetime of international travel. From Oman to In...
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Garden of Dreams: The Life of Simone Signoret
Patricia A. DeMaioCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921-1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considere...
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George A. Romero: Interviews
University Press of MississippiCurrent price €60.02Original price €68.99George A. Romero (b. 1940) has achieved a surprising longevity as director since his first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). After recently re...
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Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up
Tricia WelschCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up shows how a talented, self-confident actress negotiated a creative path through seven decades of celebrity. ...
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Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Anthony SlideCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Extras, bit players, and stand-ins have been a part of the film industry almost from its conception. On a personal and a professional level, their ...
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Jean Peters: Hollywood''s Mystery Girl
Michelangelo CapuaCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99From 1947 to 1955, Jean Peters (19262000) appeared in films opposite such Hollywood leading men as Tyrone Power, Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster, Spe...
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King of the Gunrunners: How a Philadelphia Fruit Importer Inspired a Revolution and Provoked the Spanish-American War
James W. MillerCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99By the time he turned thirty at the end of the nineteenth century, John D. Hart thrived as the busiest importer of bananas on the East Coast. A mas...
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Lew Ayres: Hollywood''s Conscientious Objector
Lesley L. CoffinCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Lew Ayres (1908-1996) became known to the public when he portrayed the leading character in the epic war film All Quiet on the Western Front. The r...
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Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
David W. JohnsonCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generati...
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Mary Wickes: I Know I''ve Seen That Face Before
Steve TaravellaCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, fi...
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