The Hero and the Blues by Albert MurrayRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.6 MBOverview: In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray’s subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances […]
The 103rd Ballot: The Legendary 1924 Democratic Convention That Forever Changed Politics by Robert Keith MurrayRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.4 MBOverview: A fascinating political narrative, analyzing the chaotic 1924 Democratic Convention that left the Democratic Party divided for years in its wake—with striking parallels to this summer’s upcoming Democratic Convention, which will determine the Democratic candidate […]
Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization by Robert MurrayRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 MBOverview: Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic […]
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World’s Finest Actor by Robert SchnakenbergRequirements: .ePUB reader, 7.5 MBOverview: He’s the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents and once agreed to voice the part of Garfield because he mistakenly […]
The Making of Australia: A Concise History by Robert MurrayRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6.2 MBOverview: In The Making of Australia, historian Robert Murray draws on a lifetime’s fascination with Australian history, giving a clear, concise history of the country. From the coming of the first Aborigines perhaps 60,000 years ago, to the election of the Abbott […]