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Nick Tosches
Now in paperback–the Tosches masterpiece–a life-or-death thriller based on the life of Dante and a thief named Nick Tosches.
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Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater madness, Jerry Lee Lewis was torn throughout his life between a harsh Pentecostal God and the Devil of…
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Presents the author’s selection from 30-years worth of his own work. It includes magazine features, interviews, rock writing, investigative journalism, criticism and essays from major publications, small literary quarterlies and…
Presenting the story of Sonny Liston, this biography also tells about boxing and the dark side of the American Dream.
From New York Times bestselling author Nick Tosches comes a novel about a man, haunted by demons, who finds salvation in an unlikely source.
From his humble beginnings to the Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin led a life legendary for its skyrocketing rise to success and shadowy connections to the mob. Now award-winning…
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Part mystery, part biography, part meditation on a forgotten singer from the early days of jazz, this is Nick Tosches piecing together of a life - that of Emmett Miller…
Only Nick Tosches, best-selling author of Dino and The Devil and Sonny Liston, could have woven this irresistible tale: part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power…
The dramatic and troubled life of Jerry Lee Lewis is one of the most legendary within American popular music. Considered one of the best biographies ever written, Fuego eterno incorporates…
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A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.
Once upon a time, Nick Tosches was a young boy.
This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls…
This work explores the American country music culture. The book reveals a history that encompasses blackface minstrels, cowboys, rockabilly, medieval myth, sex, drugs and murder and includes stories of Elvis…
Long before Elvis Presley, rock ‘n’ roll was being performed by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, The Midnighters and The Dominoes. This book contains portraits of these…
William Lindsay Gresham
Stan Carlisle is working as a carny and sets himself above the freak-show geeks. Onstage, he plays a mentalist and caters to the rich and gullible. It looks like the…
