As stated in the book, this is not a Jimi Hendrix biography, as many have already been written. This is a fascinating trip into the mind one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Jonathan Stathakis shares his personal conversations with Hendrix, which chronicles the final year of Jimi’s life. Stathakis sheds light on […]
WWE hall of famer Madusa (Alundra Blayze) reveals much of personal and professional life in “The Woman Who Would Be King.” She explains why she calls the woman that gave birth to her Betty and not mother and exposes that the man she thought was her father sexually abused her as a child. The wrestling
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NCAA corruption, how ways to fix it “Schools for Scandal” isn’t the first book devoted to the monopoly created by the NCAA, but it is well researched and offers possible solutions to fix the many issues that face college football and basketball. The book has three goals, first, expose the corruption that plaques division one
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The evolution of the Macho Man Freak out, freak out! We finally have a biography for one of the greatest wrestlers of the squared circle, Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Jon Finkel traces the routes of the family lineage into the sport, starting with Savage’s tough man father, Angelo Poffo. Poffo, a Navy man, broke the
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Separating facts from fiction Robert Wheeler does a fantastic job of clearing up misconceptions and false reports filed on the world’s greatest athlete, Jim Thorpe. The author also brilliantly demonstrates how Thorpe was unfairly treated, which resulted in him being stripped of the gold metals he rightfully earned in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. Clearly,
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The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.
An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation—and reasserted the power of rock and roll In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a
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Karen Farrington explores the history of incarnations dating back to Biblical days, then transports the listeners to today’s prisons, different forms of punishment, and corruption. The author has certainly done her homework providing history, eyewitness accounts, alarming statistics, and research studies on the topic. In this work, you will be exposed to prisons you likely
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I really enjoyed this audiobook. With a forward from Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Richards takes the listener down memory lane, watching Seinfeld episodes for the first time, as he states he never liked watching his own performances. He describes how the Cosmo Kramer character developed into one of the most memorable supporting roles in television history
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A History of American Popular Culture since 1830 If you have ever wondered what people did for entertainment in the past, this is the book for you. LeRoy Ashby demonstrates how social, political, and cultural shifts impacted the way we viewed entertainment. Billy Joel’s song “We didn’t start the fire” is a brief time capsule
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