Ronald Reagan, "The Great Communicator," knew the power of words. His voice confronted America's foes, comforted the nation, and hastened the end of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan's America presents the
Together We Cannot Fail offers a new view of how Roosevelt transformed an insular America into the world's most revered and feared superpower. An exclusive accompanying CD uses FDR's own stirring wor
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets.
Offers brief biographies, critical interpretations, and selected poems by forty-seven American and English poets from 1809 to 1963, along with recordings of each of the authors reading the works aloud
Presents a collection of previously unpublished photographs of legendary stars, including Johnny Cash, June Carter, Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn, enhanced with an accompanying compact disc filled wi
Updated to incorporate the events of the past five years, a collection of photographs, descriptive text, and three audio CDs documents such world changing events as Pearl Harbor, the assassinations o
Cinema has been influencing and inspiring our country’s poets almost since its inception a century ago. Hundreds of poets have written about movies including Delmore Schwartz on Marilyn Monroe, Jack K
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the blues and drawn inspiration f
For general readers, this volume traces the history of American classical music. Scherer, a music critic for The Wall Street Journal, keeps theoretical and technical language to a minimum, as he explo
WGN announcer Pat Hughes presents Harry Caray: Voice of the Fans, an audio/photo tribute to Chicago and St Louis sports broadcaster Harry Caray, one of the most beloved figures in baseball. Caray's p
Collects over one hundred poems, forty of which can be heard on the accompanying CD, which are presented along with essays describing the importance of poetry being heard aloud and the changes the for
