Dinner with Lenny
Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a l...
Let Me Take You Down
The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in AlmerÍa, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in res...
Conversations with Glenn Gould
One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity...
Dylan on Dylan
Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature 2016 'I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.' Bob Dylan Gathered together for the first time: a rare and diverse collecti...
Susan Sontag
Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career ¿ "A humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as a fiercely aggressive and polarizing...
Public Vows
We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. From the founding...
Radical Democracy in the Andes
After a decade in local office, are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes fulfilling their promise to provide a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of democracy? Using current debates in democratic theory as a framework, ...
From Movements to Parties in Latin America
This book provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bol...
Friendly Liquidation of the Past, The
Constitutional reform has been one of the most significant aspects of democratization in late twentieth century Latin America. In The Friendly Liquidation of the Past-one of the first texts to examine this issue comprehensively -Van Cott focuses o...
Intimate States
The last few decades have seen a surge of historical scholarship that analyzes state power and expands our understanding of governmental authority and the ways we experience it. At the same time, studies of the history of intimate life-marriage, s...
