Garcia An American Life

Author : Blair Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140291997
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garcia: An American Life written by Blair Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was there when Dylan went electric, when a generation danced naked at Woodstock, and when Ken Kesey started experimenting with acid. Jerry Garcia was one of the most gifted musicians of all time, and he was a member of one of the most worshiped rock 'n' roll bands in history. Now, Blair Jackson, who covered the Grateful Dead for twenty-five years, gives us an unparalleled portrait of Garcia--the musical genius, the brilliant songwriter, and ultimately, the tortured soul plagued by his own addiction. With more than forty photographs, many of them previously unpublished, Garcia: An American Life is the ultimate tribute to the man who, Bob Dylan said, "had no equal."

Author : Blair Jackson
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garcia written by Blair Jackson and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1999 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime journalist whose area of expertise includes the Grateful Dead takes readers on a psychedelic journey through the life of Jerry Garcia, one of the most fascinating figures ever to grace the American pop culture scene.

Author : Robert Greenfield
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062268317
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Star written by Robert Greenfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time. In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best. Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his childhood in San Francisco; the formation of his musical identity; the Dead's road to rock stardom; and his final, crushing addiction to heroin. Interviews with Jerry's former wives, lovers, family members, close friends, musical partners, and cultural cohorts create a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a rock-and-roll icon—and at the price of fame.

Author : Rock Scully
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815411634
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with the Dead written by Rock Scully and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Author : Cecilia García Akers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856466
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inspiring Life of Texan Héctor P. García written by Cecilia García Akers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Mexican immigrant, Dr. Hector P. Garcia endured discrimination at every stage of his life. He attended segregated schools and was the only Mexican to graduate from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, in 1940. Garcia's passion for helping others pushed him to advocate for equal rights. After serving in World War II, the doctor worked to help minorities achieve greater access to healthcare, voting rights and education. He started a private practice in Corpus Christi and in 1948 founded the American GI Forum. Cecilia Garcia Akers shares a daughter's perspective on her father's remarkable achievements and sacrifices as an activist and physician.

Author : Rolling Stone
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316754453
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garcia written by Rolling Stone and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of material taken from the past thirty years of "Rolling Stone" and new essays and pictures chronicles Jerry Garcia's entire life and career

Author : Gerald Martin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307272001
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gabriel García Márquez written by Gerald Martin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhaustive and enlightening biography—nearly two decades in the making—Gerald Martin dexterously traces the life and times of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary titans, Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. Martin chronicles the particulars of an extraordinary life, from his upbringing in backwater Colombia and early journalism career, to the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude at age forty, and the wealth and fame that followed. Based on interviews with more than three hundred of Garcia Marquez’s closest friends, family members, fellow authors, and detractors—as well as the many hours Martin spent with ‘Gabo’ himself—the result is a revelation of both the writer and the man. It is as gripping as any of Gabriel García Márquez’s powerful journalism, as enthralling as any of his acclaimed and beloved fiction.

Author : Julia Alvarez
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200987
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told." —The Washington Post Book World

Author : Blair Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250058562
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is All a Dream We Dreamed written by Blair Jackson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Grateful Dead was formed, the band still exerts a powerful influence over hundreds of thousands of fans around the world. Today, an entire generation of Deadheads who have never experienced a live Dead show are still drawn to the music and the complex and colorful subculture that has grown up around it. In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, Blair Jackson and David Gans, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, reveal the band's story through the words of its members and their creative collaborators, as well as a number of diverse fans, stitching together a multitude of voices into a seamless oral tapestry. Woven into this musical saga is an examination of the subculture that developed into its own economy, touching fans from all walks of life, from penniless hippies to celebrities, and at least one U.S. vice president. The book traces the band's evolution from its folk/bluegrass beginnings through the Jug Band craze, an early incarnation as Rolling Stones wannabes, feral psychedelic warriors, the Americana jam band that blazed through the '70s, to the shockingly popular but still iconoclastic stadium-filling band of later years. The Dead broke every rule of the music business along the way, taking risks and venturing into new territory as they fused inspired ideas and techniques with intuition and fearlessness to create a sound-and a business model-unlike anything heard and seen before.

Author : Sandy Troy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560250906
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Trips written by Sandy Troy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avid Dead fan and chronicler Sandy Troy probes Jerry Garcia's personal and professional life through childhood and adolescence, Summer of Love acid tests, drug busts, three marriages, a brush with death, and his comeback. Troy also traces the Dead's highs and lows and Garcia's musical relationships with songwriter Robert Hunter and other musicians in the Grateful Dead.