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Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los AngelesPaul Greenstein, Nigey Lennon, and Lionel Rolfe Exciting and well reviewed biography of Job Harriman (1861-1925), socialist attorney who challenged the power of General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was almost elected mayor of Los Angeles, and founded a socialist utopian community called Llano del Rio. |
Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the UndergroundLionel Rolfe From Booklist In this volume’s 16 essays, he discusses Menuhin, Frank Zappa, the Communist Party, literary L.A., anti-Semitism, health care, animal welfare, the founder of the Emmy awards, the birds he and his ex-wife (a member of Zappa’s entourage) have cared for as pets, Israel and Zionism, and California, “home” for much of his life. |
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Presidents & Near President I Have KnownLionel Rolfe Personal encounters with Hubert Humphrey, Ronald Reagan, Eugene McCarthy and Gerald Ford, as well as a huge array of other wild characters. |
Literary L.A.: Expanded From the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and NowLionel Rolfe Beyond L.A.’s self-promotional glitter is a hotbed of writers, bohemians, mad poets, exiles and refugees from every form of oppression - and this book tells their stories. |
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The Menuhins: A Family OdyssyLionel Rolfe The story of a miraculous family of great musicians and religious leaders. It is told here for the first time by the nephew of Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist regarded as the greatest musical prodigy since Mozart. |
Outsider’s ReverieLeslie Evans Leslie Evans grew up in a home steeped in the lore of ghostly apparitions, spirit guides, star charts, and the astral plane. He was a figure in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and later a web journalist and an editor for the World Health Organization and the World Bank. |
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The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa CatherLionel Rolfe This is an extraordinary story of the friendship between Willa Cather and the author’s mother, piano prodigy Yaltah Menuhin (1920-2001), sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. |
Being Frank: My Time With Frank ZappaExpanded From The Original Classic Nigey Lennon Since his untimely death from prostate cancer in 1993, the legend of iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has continued to grow. The decade following his passing has seen the publication of a number of books, but the best, and only, up-close-and-personal account of the man and his music remains the original: Nigey Lennon’s Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa. |
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Reflections from ElsewhereLionel Rolfe REFLECTIONS FROM ELSEWHERE is author and journalist Lionel Rolfe’s paean and exposé, tribute to and critique of California’s unique place in the American public consciousness. A nearly lifelong resident of that fabled state, and having worked full-time since age twenty at some of its most prestigious newspapers (the Los Angeles Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle), ten-year editor of B’nai Brith’s Messenger (the second oldest newspaper in Los Angeles) and an editor for Psychology Today, as well as the author of the classic Literary L.A., he offers readers the unparalleled vantage point of the insider-outsider as well as a personal tour of California as it was—is—might have been—and will never be. |
