A Liberation album: Canadians in the Netherlands, 1944-45

Politics & Social Sciences

Kaufman, David

Social Sciences

McGraw

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller.

Wallpaper City Guide Boston

Travel

United States

Phaidon Inc Ltd

David Kaufman's long-awaited, definitive biography of Doris Day takes readers to the epicenter of American popular culture—a roller-coaster saga, from the 1940s to the 1980s. While Day symbolized virtuous America to the rest of the world—especially in her heyday, the 1950s and early 1960s—both she and that era are still perceived as being far more innocent and carefree than they really were. Indeed, what makes Day's story so richly fascinating is the fact that she was in many ways the opposite of her image as "the girl next door." She was also a real-life Cinderella who regretted having gone to the ball and who found a series of princes who proved far less than charming. Thanks to Kaufman's dogged diligence in tracking down countless colleagues and intimates, he gives readers scintillating tales of fame, beauty, money, tragedy, sexual ambiguity, and sexual conquests. He also has collected fascinating anecdotes about a vast array of major subsidiary players in Day's life, including Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Charles Manson, Mickey Mantle, Candice Bergen, and Rock Hudson. Kaufman reveals Day's demons while emphasizing the extraordinary credit she deserves as an artist. In the tradition of great biographies, Kaufman's detailed work not only reveals the surprising story of one of America's most beloved icons, but also compels us to rush back and see her best films—including The Man Who Knew Too Much, Pillow Talk, and Love Me or Leave Me—and to listen to her unforgettable songs—"Sentimental Journey," "Secret Love," and "Que Sera, Sera." Though she made more than 550 recordings and starred in 39 movies—not to mention her own TV show for five years—the epic story of Doris Day's life has never been told, until now.

The Girl Next Door

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Virgin Books

In 1990 David Kaufman decided to explore Peachtree Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Chattahoochee River. For thirteen years he paddled the creek, photographed it, and researched its history as the Atlanta area's major watershed. The result is Peachtree Creek, a compelling mix of urban travelogue, local history, and call for conservation. Historical images and Kaufman's evocative color photographs help capture the creek's many faces, past and present. Most Atlantans only glimpse Peachtree Creek briefly, as they pass over it on their daily commute, if at all. Looking down on the creek from Piedmont or Peachtree Roads, few contemplate how it courses through the city, where it originates and flows to. Fewer still-many fewer-would ever consider paddling down it, with its pollution and flash floods. Through his expeditions down Peachtree Creek and its five tributaries―North Fork, South Fork, Clear Creek, Nancy Creek, and Tanyard Creek―Kaufman takes readers through such places as Piedmont and Chastain Parks, which, aside from the polluted water, are beautiful, even bucolic. Other stretches of creek, like those draining Midtown and Atlantic Station, are channeled into massive culverts and choked with discarded waste from the city. One day, floating past the Bobby Jones Golf Course, he surprises a golfer searching for his stray ball along the creek bank; another he spends talking to a homeless man living under a bridge near Buckhead. Kaufman reveals fascinating aspects of Atlanta by examining how Peachtree Creek shaped and was shaped by the history of the area. Street names like Moore's Mill Road and Howell Mill Road take on new meaning. He explains the dynamics of water run off that cause the creek to go from a trickle to a torrent in a matter of hours. Kaufman asks how a waterway that was once people's source of water, power, and livelihood became, at its worst, an open sewer and flooding hazard. Portraying some of our worst mishandling of the environment, Kaufman suggests ways to a more sustainable stewardship of Peachtree Creek.

Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

University of Georgia Press

Around the turn of the 20th century the idea of combining the Jewish house of worship with a center for community, educational, and social activities arose as a way of melding and meeting the needs of Jews in a changing social and religious environment. David Kaufman's fascinating examination shows how a quintessentially American institution -- the "synagogue-center" -- evolved into the primary locus of Jewish identification in this country. This study encompasses social, religious, architectural, and American Jewish history to clarify the synagogue-center's many roles: as service agency, communal gathering place, unifying symbol, and sectarian institution fostering Jewish culture and education. But Kaufman also shows that as a unique amalgam of the religious and the secular, these centers embody a basic duality of American Jewish identity, a fundamental tension between Jews who see themselves primarily as members of a religious faith, and those who define themselves in more sociopolitical terms, that is, as nationality, as ethnic group, as "a people." By presenting itself as an alternative to the traditional synagogue, the synagogue-center serves as an historic departure in the construction of Jewish community and remains one of the most significant innovations of American Judaism.

Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History (Brandies Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life)

History

Americas

Brandeis University Press

Mary Martin was one of the greatest stars of her day. Growing up in Texas, she was married early to Benjamin Hagman and gave birth to her first child, Larry Hagman. She was divorced even more quickly. Martin left little Larry with her parents and took off for Hollywood. She didn't make a dent in the movie industry and was lured to New York where she found herself auditioning for Cole Porter and his new show "Leave It to Me!". After she sang the bawdy "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", she ended up on the cover of Life magazine. Six years later, she became the Toast of Broadway when she starred in "South Pacific". After that, she flew as "Peter Pan", yodeled in "The Sound of Music", took "Hello, Dolly!" on the road and shared a four-poster with Robert Preston in "I Do! I Do!". Her personal life was just as interesting: In NYC, she met and married Richard Halliday, a closeted upper-class homosexual who adored her, Broadway and interior decorating (though probably not in that order). They were a powerful twosome. There were rumors about Martin, too, being in a lesbian relationship with both Janet Gaynor and Jean Arthur. Peopled with legends like Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Noel Coward and a starry cast of thousands, David Kaufman's "Some Enchanted Evenings" is the delectable story of the one and only Mary Martin, a woman who described herself as a chicken farmer from Texas only to become Peter Pan and capture America's heart.

Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

Humor & Entertainment

St.Martin's Press

A fascinating new biography of Mary Martin, the girl whose heart belonged to daddy, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Janet Gaynor, and Peter Pan. Mary Martin's life spanned the twentieth century and dominated the golden age of American musical theater. After an unsuccessful attempt at Hollywood stardom, she found herself auditioning for Cole Porter's Leave It to Me! in 1938. After winning the part and singing the bawdy "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," stardom was hers. Just over a decade later, she created the role of Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. After that, she flew as Peter Pan, created the role of Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and took Hello, Dolly! on the road. Martin's uncanny ability to make everyone in the audience feel as if she were communicating directly to them turned each of her performances into an "event."Beginning with the abandonment of her only son, Larry Hagman, to kickstart her career, Martin's personal life was the exact opposite of the homespun, fairy-tale lives she evoked on stage. Rumors of lesbian relationships swirled around her. Her second husband, Richard Halliday, was a closeted, haughty homosexual who, as her manager, brought glamour, sophistication, and a will of iron to Mary's life. Peopled with legends like Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Noel Coward, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Hedda Hopper, Yul Brynner and a starry cast of thousands, Some Enchanted Evenings is the delectable story of the one and only Mary Martin--the little girl from Texas who captured America's heart.

Some Enchanted Evenings Lib/E: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

Blackstone Publishing

[Read by Bernadette Dunne] A fascinating new biography of Mary Martin, the girl whose heart belonged to daddy, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Janet Gaynor, and Peter Pan. Mary Martin's life spanned the twentieth century and dominated the golden age of American musical theater. After an unsuccessful attempt at Hollywood stardom, she found herself auditioning for Cole Porter's Leave It to Me! in 1938. After winning the part and singing the bawdy ''My Heart Belongs to Daddy,'' stardom was hers. Just over a decade later, she created the role of Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. After that, she flew as Peter Pan, created the role of Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and took Hello, Dolly! on the road. Martin's uncanny ability to make everyone in the audience feel as if she were communicating directly to them turned each of her performances into an ''event.'' Beginning with the abandonment of her only son, Larry Hagman, to kickstart her career, Martin's personal life was the exact opposite of the homespun, fairy-tale lives she evoked on stage. Rumors of lesbian relationships swirled around her. Her second husband, Richard Halliday, was a closeted, haughty homosexual who, as her manager, brought glamour, sophistication, and a will of iron to Mary's life. Peopled with legends like Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Noel Coward, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Robbins, Hedda Hopper, Yul Brynner and a starry cast of thousands, Some Enchanted Evenings is the delectable story of the one and only Mary Martin -- the little girl from Texas who captured America's heart.

Blackstone Audiobooks

From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44, Charles Ludlam embodied – and helped to engender – the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in RIDICULOUS!, a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967, Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays – plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres, on college campuses, and on stages throughout the world, his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler, the original cast members of Saturday Night Live and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays, Ludlam's life was rife with the sex, drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam – including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers – RIDICULOUS! recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity. Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the Year “David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster, this book is informed and passionate.” – Mel Gussow, The New York Times “A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence.” – Playbill “The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates – which, as reading experiences go, makes his story all the sweeter.” – Vanity Fair “This is one helluva piece of work.” – Marilyn Stasio, Variety.com

Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (Applause Books)

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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A Liberation album: Canadians in the Netherlands, 1944-45

Wallpaper City Guide Boston

The Girl Next Door

Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed

Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History (Brandies Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life)

Shul with a Pool: The “Synagogue-Center” in American Jewish History (Brandies Series in American Jewish History, Culture and Life)

Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

Some Enchanted Evenings Lib/E: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin

Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam (Applause Books)