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“jeffrey palmquist”

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  • Café Lafitte in Exile

    Queer New Orleans and the Story of America’s Oldest Gay Bar

    by Frank Perez, Jeffrey Palmquist ...
    Café Lafitte in Exile tells the story of queer New Orleans through the lens of its most legendary gay bar. The bar has held a central place in New Orleans’s queer scene for many years, with a profuse mythology entwining its history. Café Lafitte in Exile endeavors to set the record straight.The story begins long before the founding of gay bars, with an exploration of Indigenous sexual and gender ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces

    by Cory MacLauchlin ...
    "An exhaustive biography. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in this enigmatic literary figure; indeed in Southern literature." — Washington TimesThe saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Wind in the Reeds

    A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

    by Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher ...
    **2016 Christopher Award WinnerFrom acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art.**On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontchartrain Park, the home of Wendell Pierce's family and the first African American ... Read more

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  • The Maverick's Museum

    Albert Barnes and His American Dream

    by Blake Gopnik ...
    A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soulFrom prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new art collector biography of America’s first great collector of modern art, Albert Coombs Barnes. Raised in a Philadelphia slum shortly after the Civil War, Barnes rose to earn a medical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tinderbox

    The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

    by Robert W. Fieseler ...
    Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime)Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ WritersFinalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association)Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf AwarenessAn essential work of American civil rights histo. ... Read more

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  • The World of Tennessee Williams

    by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Kenneth Holditch ...
    The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text was a friend of Leavitt's and knew ... Read more

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  • The Kentucky Derby

    How the Run for the Roses Became America’s Premier Sporting Event

    by James C. Nicholson ...
    Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that the Kentucky Derby holds. For more than 130 years, spectators have been fascinated by the magnificent horses that run the ... Read more

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  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
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    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Shores

    A History of African Americans Abroad

    by Tamara J. Walker ...
    New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • An award-winning author charts the poignant global journeys of African Americans as she explores her own transatlantic family odyssey in Beyond the Shores, a powerful history of living abroad while Black.“By exploring the life of Black expats, creatives, and activists, Beyond the Shores enhances the stories of migration to reveal how race is lived in ... Read more

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  • Sustaining New Orleans

    Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City

    by Barbara Eckstein ...
    This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans – America’s most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase ‘sustaining New Orleans’ from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice. ... Read more

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  • City of a Million Dreams

    A History of New Orleans at Year 300

    by Jason Berry ...
    In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. Mayor Mitch Landrieu led the ceremony, attended by living legends of jazz, music aficionados, politicians, and everyday people. The scene captured the history and culture of the city in microcosm — a city legendary for its noisy, complicated, tradition ... Read more

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  • The Year Before the Flood

    A Story of New Orleans

    by Ned Sublette ...
    With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette's powerful new book drives the reader through the potholed, sinking streets of the United States's least-typical city.In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The World That Made New Orleans, Sublette's award-winning history of the Crescent City's colonial years, he traces an arc of his own ... Read more

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