Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

Similar books (20)

• 

  Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

  In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throu…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

  From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis,…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Homage to Catalonia

  In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectu…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

  Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Key to Rebecca

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

  Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama -- the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Black Book (Billy Harney, #1)

  
  The Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller
  
  Three bodies in a beautiful and luxurious bedroom.
  
  Billy Harney was born to be a cop. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister i…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Hiroshima

  On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Red Book (Billy Harney, #2)

  For Detective Billy Harney, the distance from hero to statistic is one false move.
  
  To Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force -- Special Operations Section (SOS) -- getting shot in…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Eighth Life

  Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century.
  
  'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling …

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  My Ántonia

  Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature'…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

  First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant labor…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Erasure

  Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploit…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Sound and the Fury

  The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and…

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

  Buy this book on Amazon
• 

  The Vanished Man

  Buy this book on Amazon