Upgrade your library with an array of engaging titles spanning movie history, presidential misbehavior, late-night TV, digital-media chaos and the Obama presidency.
A fun, fascinating and exhaustively reported look at the iconic Hollywood movie quotes we know and love. Drawing on interviews, archival sleuthing and behind-the-scenes details, the book examines how hundreds of film lines shaped eras, reverberated through culture and became cemented in the modern lexicon.
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An authoritative window into the events that defined Barack Obama’s presidency—the successes and failures experienced inside the belly of the beast—built from the eyewitness accounts of cabinet secretaries, speechwriters, senior staff and others who lived through the administration.
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The unlikely story of the blockbuster that modernized the action genre, launched Bruce Willis’s film career and permanently altered Hollywood’s financial ecosystem.
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It was the most infamous, controversial and successful gossip website in the world: Gawker, Nick Denton’s devilish brainchild that modernized American media and resuscitated a fearless tabloid sensibility deemed all but lost after Spy magazine and The Tattler went to magazine heaven.
In Gawker: An Oral History, bloggers, videographers and reporters reveal the inner workings of Denton’s empire, from interoffice romances to rampant attacks on New York’s rich and famous, and from its halcyon days as a guerrilla operation run out of coffee shops to its evolution into an online juggernaut.
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Writers, producers, executives and guests reconstruct the ironic revolution of Letterman’s NBC years, including the origins of the Top Ten list, Stupid Pet Tricks and the fight for Johnny Carson’s chair.
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A compelling, hilarious and true American history on the rocks, celebrating the decidedly less-distinguished side of the nation’s leaders.
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