An NPR Best Book of 2017At the time of her death at age ninety-four, in September 2017, Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L'Oréal fortune, was the world's richest woman and the fourteenth wea
Was the world’s wealthiest woman—Liliane Bettencourt—heir to an estimated thirty-six-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, the victim of a con man? Or were her own family the real villains? This riveting na
Song for My Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black jazzmen in the twilight years of the segregation era. Contempo
This colorful book of photographs showcases the many great jazz musicians who have played at Preservation Hall in New Orleans. The work is filled with artistic photography of the venue and the artists
