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|  | | Channeling Elvis: How Television Saved the King of Rock 'n' Roll
A fresh look at Elvis Presley's 20-year career through the unique lens of television. Only television captured the King at each crucial moment in his career, from start to finish, and also left us the largest body of Presley performance footage.
span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica;">Based on more than a decade of research, dozens of fresh interviews, and hours of viewing television and other footage, i>Channeling Elvis; How Television Saved the King of Rock 'n' Roll/i> takes a long-needed close-up look at Elvis Presley's career through the unique lens of television and reveals the role it played in his success. Only television captured the full arc of the King's career, from his first steps onto the national stage in 1956, to his long anticipated return from the army, his breakout from a stale movie | |  | | David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man's Friend
The real "Davy" Crockett, seen through his political career, letters and other primary sources.
strong>We’ve all heard of Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, but serious historians have long known that the man behind the myth was more substantive and more complex./strong> Current Crockett scholarship has been largely based on James Atkins Shackford’s 1956 biography, David Crockett, the Man and the Legend, and Shackford’s interpretation of the historical Crockett as an admirable but inept and somewhat naive politician has become as pervasive in the historical sector as the mythological “Davy” has to the general public.
Now, two life-lon | |  | | David Crockett in Texas: His Search for New Land
A fresh look at the well-known figure from the perspective of his quest for land in Texas and the new start it promised for his family.
span style="font-size: medium;">span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">span class="a-text-bold" style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700 !important;">"A stunning tour de force of research and analysis that illuminates the last three months of ‘Davy's’ life. Wiener's book will stand in the top rank . . . . He also adds important new speculation and analysis on those last thirteen days in the Alamo."/span>span style="color: rgb(15, 17, 17); box-sizing: border-box;">—William C. Davis, author of/span>span clas | |  | | Music of the Alamo
From 19th century ballads to big-screen soundtracks, every song written or recorded about the Alamo, its heroes, and the Texas Revolution.
span style="color: black">The story of the famous Siege and Battle of the Alamo hasbeen told in prose, poetry, art, film, and staged productions for over 170 years. /span>
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="color: black">And it has been told in song./span>/div>
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div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="color: black">For thirteen days in 1836, a small band of Texian and Tejano defenders, including Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, and Jim Bowie, stood their ground inside the Alamo against an overwhelming Mexican force co |
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