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Taking On AC/DC Taught Me Why Most Music Biographies Suck
SPIN via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe music industry and its enablers in publishing have a taste for secrets, lies, and ironclad image...
Biography explores Bo Jackson’s complicated, sensational life | DON NOBLE
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJeff Pearlman is a veteran best-selling sportswriter. He has 10 books to his credit, including...
Horatio Alger Is a Hoax, But We Can Still Celebrate the American Dream
Time via Yahoo News· 10 months ago"Ragged Dick"; poor shoeshine boy; book cover from the Ragged Dick series by Horatio Alger, Jr., ca....
Dick Ward's Once Upon a Lifetime Book Sale
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 17—PLATTSBURGH — President Franklin D. Roosevelt died 76 years ago on April 12, 1945. The 32nd president's death notice blanketed the front page of the New York Times, and that original ...
1960s TV Sitcoms: Your Guide to 60 of Them and Where to Stream
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 3 months agoLooking back at the sitcoms of the 1950s, they were generally gentle family comedies along the lines...
Former Detroit councilwoman and civil rights icon JoAnn Watson dies at 72
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFormer Detroit city councilwoman and celebrated civil rights activist JoAnn Watson has died. Watson...
Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton’s Historic First Season with the New York Knicks
Biography via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNathaniel Clifton was one of the first Black basketball players to sign with an NBA team. He helped...
Paul Lynde: 12 Facts About the 'Bewitched' Star
Woman's World via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe landscape of 1960s classic television is filled with actor Paul Lynde, who appeared on no less than 22 shows, including his appearances as "Uncle...
How the Horatio Alger Lie Helped Shape the Myth of American Upward Mobility
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn exclusive excerpt from the new book Bootstrapped explodes the fantasy at the heart of the...
Janet Reno Is No Hero
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoUniversity Press of Florida Janet Reno: A Life, by Judith Hicks Stiehm, University Press of Florida, 224 pages, $35 In April 24, 2000, a day after Easter...
