Newport Firsts: A Hundred Claims to Fame 1540228606, 9781540228604

Claims to Fame [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520914155

Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the la

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Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawaii 9780824843816

This is the first book-length look at how and when a wide range of items made their first appearance in the Islands: fro

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Women's claims: A study in political economy

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Fame 9781317488514, 9781844651573

One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Ro

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Halls of Fame

This is: MY BOOK HOUSE: Volume Number TWELVE - including the INDEX, HALLS OF FAME. Edited by Olive Beaupre Miller. Publi

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Wicked Newport: Kentucky's Sin City 159629549X, 9781596295490

Controlled by the heavy hand of the mob and fueled by government corruption, Newport evolved through the nineteenth and

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Look at Me!: The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

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Fame 9781617756955, 9781617756603, 2018931219, 1617756954

A passionate and critical analysis of the life cycle of Fame, from film producer/director and former worldwide TV star J

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Celebrity: A history of fame [1 ed.] 9781479862030

The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part

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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity 9780887558467, 9780887555961, 9780887555947

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French d

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