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Gene Smith's Sink

A Wide-Angle View

By: Sam Stephenson

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An incisive biography of the prolific photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith Famously unabashed, W. Eugene Smith was photography’s most celebrated humanist. As a photo essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s and ’50s, he established himself as an intimate chronicler of human culture. His photographs of war and disaster, villages and metropolises, doctors and midwives, revolutionized the role of images in journalism, transforming photography for decades to come. When Smith died in 1978, he left behind eighteen dollars in the bank and forty-four thousand pounds of archives. He was only fifty-nine, but he was flat worn-out. His death certificate read “stroke,” but, as was said of the immortal jazzman Charlie Parker, Smith died of “everything,” from drug and alcohol benders to weeklong work sessions with no sleep. Lured by the intoxicating trail of people that emerged from Smith’s stupefying archive, Sam Stephenson began a quest to trace his footsteps. In Gene Smith’s Sink, Stephenson merges traditional biography with rhythmic digressions to revive Smith’s life and legacy. Traveling across twenty-nine states, Japan, and the Pacific, Stephenson profiles a lively cast of characters, including the playwright Tennessee Williams, to whom Smith likened himself; the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a Swiss chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; the jazz pianists Thelonious Monk and Sonny Clark, whose music was taped by Smith in his loft; and a series of obscure caregivers who helped keep Smith on his feet. The distillation of twenty years of research, Gene Smith’s Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer’s potent legacy and the subjects around him.

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200

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429944455

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9781429944458

Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual

How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

By: Sam Smith

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Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual

How to Rebuild Our Country So the Politics Aren't Broken and Politicians Aren't Fixed

By: Sam Smith

Witty and profound, opinionated and informative, maverick journalist Sam Smith has important things to say to politically disaffected Americans of all stripes. This primer gives hope that the coughing engines and stripped gears of American democracy can be made to work again--if Americans can recover their can-do spirit and practice a politics of common sense and common decency combined with a search for common ground.

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260

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316270

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9780393316278

Sam Smith - Love Goes

By: Sam Smith

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Sam Smith - Love Goes

By: Sam Smith

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 17 songs in arrangements for piano, voice and guitar from Smith's third studio album released in 2020. Includes the title track plus: Dancing with a Stranger * Diamonds * Fire on Fire * How Do You Sleep? * I'm Ready * Kids Again * My Oasis * Promises * To Die For * and more.

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234

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Hal Leonard

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1705133592

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9781705133590

Thunderbolt from Navarone

By: Sam Llewellyn

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Thunderbolt from Navarone

By: Sam Llewellyn

Following on in Alistair MacLean’s footsteps, Sam Llewellyn, an enthralling storyteller in his own right, has produced another riveting sequel to the classic adventures The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 From Navarone

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HarperCollins UK

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0007347839

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9780007347834

Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger,Sam Wasson

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Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger,Sam Wasson

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader “listen in” on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen: musicians, costumers, art directors, cinematographers, writers, sound men, editors, make-up artists, and even script timers, messengers, and publicists. The result is like a conversation among the gods and goddesses of film: lively, funny, insightful, historically accurate and, for the first time, authentically honest in its portrait of Hollywood. It’s the insider’s story. Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson, both acclaimed storytellers in their own right, have undertaken the monumental task of digesting these tens of thousands of hours of talk and weaving it into a definitive portrait of workaday Hollywood.

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917

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HarperCollins

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0063056968

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9780063056961

Bitter Roses

An Inside Look at the Washington Huskies' Turbulent Year

By: Sam Farmer

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Bitter Roses

An Inside Look at the Washington Huskies' Turbulent Year

By: Sam Farmer

The University of Washington entered the 1992 season poised to make a run as repeat national champions. Then controversy broke. Star quaterback Billy Joe Hobert admitted to accepting a 50,000 dollar loan from a booster and more allegations followed. This book explores these allegations and the probing of the Huskies' program by the NCAA, the PAC-10, the Seattle Police, and the Secret Service.

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392

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Sagamore Publishing

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0915611805

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9780915611805

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