Let's Pretend and the Golden Age of Radio (hardback)
Author: Arthur Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 2004-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of the classic radio show, Let's Pretend, written by one of its cast members.
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Raised on Radio
Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-08-23
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780520223035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRadio broadcasting United States History.
The Great American Broadcast
Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: NAL
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780451200785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of the Golden Age of Radio offers behind the scenes stories about Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, and many more stars, as well as the histories of radio soap operas, westerns and other shows. Includes hundreds of personal interviews and more than 125 rare photos and illustrations.
Let's Pretend This Never Happened
Author: Jenny Lawson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1101573082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
The Skies Belong to Us
Author: Brendan I. Koerner
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0307886115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
That's Not All Folks
Author: Mel Blanc
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published: 1989-11-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780446390897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe legendary cartoon and radio voice man offers a behind-the-scenes chronicl of his many-voiced career, detailing his creation of world-famous voices and his work with the best-loved cartoon characters and radio personalities.
Pretend You Don't See Her
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1847395457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women… before she is the next casualty. A terrifyingly chilling bestseller from the internationally adored author of DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL
Radio Voices
Author: Michele Hilmes
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780816626212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history of radio broadcasting as an aspect of American culture, and discusses social tensions, radio formats, and the roles of African Americans and women
Private Eyelashes
Author: Jack French
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780971457089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines radio and mystery drama from about 1932 to the genre's final appearance in the late 1950's. While its focus is on women detectives, French provides minute and fascinating details about dozens of mystery programs and includes a comprehensive listing of source material ranging from magazine articles, to dime detective novels, to film noir. Each lady detective appearing under one of eight cleverly conceived categories gets handsome, multi-page treatment. The author traces the chronological appearance of the subject's show, examines the program's history and origins, and details with substantial documentation the manner of the show's presentation and production. He intersperses the text with actual dialogue taken directly from the program scripts.
Everything's Coming Up Profits
Author: Steve Young
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780922233441
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe little-known world of industrial shows is reconstructed through the record collection of author Steve Young, who has spent twenty years finding the extremely rare souvenir albums as well as tracking down and interviewing the writers and performers.
