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"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...
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In this anthology of memoirs, poems, novels, comedy routines, letters, essays, and song lyrics, O'Brien provides a kaleidoscopic guided tour through the subterranean scenes and tribes that gave birth to cool: the worlds of jazz, of disaffected postwar youth, of the racially and sexually excluded, of outlaws and drug users creating their own dissident networks.
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"An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs, this book is the second in a six-volume series that assembles much of Debs's work for the first time in a single place. The collection makes approximately 160 documents by one of the pivotal figures in the labor movement readily accessible. Illuminating nineteenth-century working-class history, particularly the complex and shifting...
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