Rock and Roll: Gold Rush

Maury Dean

Maxwell Hunter Pub.

<p>Did you know that Buddy Holly and his Crickets perhaps created the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the modern-day rock and roll band? Holly is the plane-crash victim on the day Don McLean's "American Pie" says the music died--Feb. 3, 1959. Maury Dean and millions of others believe the music never really died. "This'll Be the Day" shows Buddy's musical immortality. McLean's song was voted our nation's 2nd favorite in the Smithsonian, and Don laments Buddy's widowed bride Maria Elena. You'll also discover who invented the electric guitar, what it was like to work for Motown Records in the 60s, and how the "Holly hiccup" brought fun and joy to rock and roll. This Buddy book is 90% Buddy &amp; Crickets' bio, and 10% memoir of a Long Island rock historian who grew up in the Motor City with a Holly hiccup and a dream. "This'll Be the Day" also shows how his own kid's band Nine Days offered the "Absolutely" biggest hit summer song of the year 2000. "This'll Be the Day" tells the great romantic story of the 50s' most important rock star in the afterglow of Elvis, and how Buddy and his chirping Crickets changed the world and made everybody smile. Age range 1 to 111.</p>

This'll Be the Day: The Life and Legacy of Buddy Holly

Maxwell Hunter Publishing

This is the story of where our lost money went. A sneaky tax tidal wave recently swamped our hard-working middle class, and shanghaied it far beyond the South China Sea. Big Oil and Big Banks slurped up big bailouts and windfall profits, paid NO taxes, and commaded us 'Middle Classmates' to bail them out. One dynamic century ago, our Motor City--Detroit, Michigan--launched both Henry Ford's billionaire parade, AND the American Middle Class. For bonus prizes, Detroit invented or perfected air conditioning, highway construction, the refrigerator, washing machine, and the electric guitar. Shouldn't we all rock with riches? Our emerging middle class enjoyed the pleasures of a limitless ocean of opportunity. Why are we now drowning in debt? Why has so much of our fading future been wrestled into submission by hedge-fund gamblers, untaxed mighty corporations, and bonanza billionaires financing governors to zap teachers and cops and collective bargaining? Why is the middle class sloshing through sub-prime mortgage disasters, predatory financial-planning casinos, student-loan debtors' prisons, tanking 401Ks, and bye-bye pensions? Do America's financial Wall Street wizards brew up a scary scenario? Must they gloomily prey upon the young, the sick, and the old? Back in the 50s, Dad supported the entire family with one good 40-hour job. Today, whole families now stagger to a six-pack of meager toilsome jobs, to put a down payment on a soggy box of Wheaties. Have the financial finaglers stolen our future? Have they dashed American aspirations into a dumpster of debt? Is the American Dream wobbling between hope and despair on stormy seas? Does Wall Street's mighty armada loom large in its quest to vanquish and squash Main Street? Do banks rob people? Are all the answers hiding in the first paragraph, inside the book, and a little bit beyond?

Billionaire Bingo: Saving Our Endangered Middle Class* *From Detroit to Eternity

Maxwell Hunter Publishing, Inc.

Glory Days: Still Running Against the Wind

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