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July 9, 2012

Marc Dolan

Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock ’n’ Roll

Through constant reinvention, the rocker with a blue-collar sensibility found his way in songs with messages hard for people to ignore.

May 22, 2012

Stephen Hinton

Weill’s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

This eminently readable biography captures the genius of the composer whose music captured the time, place and climate of the times.

July 1, 2011

Ricky Riccardi

What A Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years

A spirited defense of the jazz master’s legacy through an era of changing tastes.

June 30, 2011

Mindy Aloff

Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World

Beyond memoir, this collection showcases the master choreographer’s reflections on dance, film and theater.

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Roger Penrose

Respected physicist Roger Penrose theorizes on the beginning and end of our universe.

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William Lee Miller

A look at two consecutive presidents, both ordinary men hailing from the Midwest, each hurled upward via different routes to the most powerful of positions.