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The Futurist
The Life and Films of James Cameron
Written by Rebecca Keegan
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $24.00
With the release of Avatar, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic.
The Futurist is the... Read more >
The Life and Films of James Cameron
Written by Rebecca Keegan
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $24.00
With the release of Avatar, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic.
The Futurist is the... Read more >
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The Futurist
The Life and Films of James Cameron
Written by Rebecca Keegan
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $24.00
With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic... Read more >
The Life and Films of James Cameron
Written by Rebecca Keegan
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 15, 2009
Price: $24.00
With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic... Read more >
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Get Happy
The Life of Judy Garland
Written by Gerald Clarke
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.00
She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now.
From... Read more >
The Life of Judy Garland
Written by Gerald Clarke
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $18.00
She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now.
From... Read more >
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Intimate Strangers
Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous
Written by Bill Zehme
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
Schwarzenegger intimidates.
Sharon Stone strips.
Leno and Letterman duel.
In twenty years of raw and raucous celebrity profiles
Irreverently bold journalist Bill Zehme has long been celebrated for his ability to get under the skins of our most elusive icons, from the evasive Warren Beatty to the ever-unpredictable Madonna to the much... Read more >
Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous
Written by Bill Zehme
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
Schwarzenegger intimidates.
Sharon Stone strips.
Leno and Letterman duel.
In twenty years of raw and raucous celebrity profiles
Irreverently bold journalist Bill Zehme has long been celebrated for his ability to get under the skins of our most elusive icons, from the evasive Warren Beatty to the ever-unpredictable Madonna to the much... Read more >
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Lost in the Funhouse
The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
Written by Bill Zehme
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
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The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman
Written by Bill Zehme
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $13.95
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Natasha
The Biography of Natalie Wood
Written by Suzanne Finstad
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.99
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The Biography of Natalie Wood
Written by Suzanne Finstad
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.99
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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
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All of Me
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
Written by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $26.00
In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy... Read more >
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eBook.
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Spellbound by Beauty
Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
Written by Donald Spoto
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Fascinating . . . probes an even darker side of Hitchcock." –Newsday
It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the legendary actresses he directed–including Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, and Grace Kelly. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, and many of... Read more >
Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
Written by Donald Spoto
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $16.00
"Fascinating . . . probes an even darker side of Hitchcock." –Newsday
It is remarkable how infrequently, over a period of more than fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about the legendary actresses he directed–including Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak, and Grace Kelly. But his leading ladies greatly enriched his films, and many of... Read more >
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I Am the New Black
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
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I Am the New Black
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Read by Tracy Morgan
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Read by Tracy Morgan
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
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I Am the New Black
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $25.00
The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD and a
hardcover.
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Robert Altman
The Oral Biography
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.
His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a... Read more >
The Oral Biography
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.
His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Robert Altman
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.
His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a... Read more >
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
Robert Altman—visionary director, hard-partying hedonist, eccentric family man, Hollywood legend—comes roaring to life in this rollicking cinematic biography, told in a chorus of voices that can only be called Altmanesque.
His outsized life and unique career are revealed as never before: here are the words of his family and friends, and a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
hardcover.
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American Prince
A Memoir
Written by Tony Curtis and Peter Golenbock
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Curtis spares few intimate details about his years as a Hollywood lothario, including his teenage affair with a redheaded, ponytailed Marilyn Monroe."–USA Today
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Tony Curtis and Peter Golenbock
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
"Curtis spares few intimate details about his years as a Hollywood lothario, including his teenage affair with a redheaded, ponytailed Marilyn Monroe."–USA Today
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
hardcover.
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American Rebel
The Life of Clint Eastwood
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.99
As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.
In American... Read more >
The Life of Clint Eastwood
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.99
As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.
In American... Read more >
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eBook.
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American Rebel
The Life of Clint Eastwood
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.99
As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.
In American... Read more >
The Life of Clint Eastwood
Written by Marc Eliot
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $25.99
As an actor, he seduces us with his tough-guy charm. As a director and producer, he amazes us with his artistry and technical savvy. As a Hollywood icon, Clint Eastwood, one of film's greatest living legends, represents some of the finest cinematic achievements in the history of American cinema.
In American... Read more >
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hardcover.
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
A Swingin' Show-biz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $26.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $35.00
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
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We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives
A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.50
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Written by Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Read by Paul Shaffer
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $17.50
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights of Broadway and... Read more >
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Mysterious Stranger
A Book of Magic
Written by David Blaine
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
Blaine’s Challenge!
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A never-before-attempted challenge to readers everywhere!
WIN $100,000.00
Hidden throughout the volume now in front of you are secret little signals, clues, and codes that,
once understood and deciphered, will lead to the discovery of a
Treasure!!
Which has been... Read more >
A Book of Magic
Written by David Blaine
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
Blaine’s Challenge!
———— —— —— —— —— — —— —— — —— —— — ——— —— ————
A never-before-attempted challenge to readers everywhere!
WIN $100,000.00
Hidden throughout the volume now in front of you are secret little signals, clues, and codes that,
once understood and deciphered, will lead to the discovery of a
Treasure!!
Which has been... Read more >
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Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute
Written by George Stevens, Jr.
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.
Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang... Read more >
Written by George Stevens, Jr.
Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2009
Price: $18.95
The first book to bring together these interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute’s renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners.
Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang... Read more >
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Westlife
In Our Own Words
Written by Eugene Masterson
Foreword by Ronan Keating
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $9.95
WHEN IRISH GUYS ARE SMILING
Meet Westlife: Nicky, Mark, Bryan, Kian, and Shane--America's new pop sensation. These five Irish lads have broken record after record in their rise from obscurity to stardom. Now in Westlife: In Our Own Words the band tells their story, their way. Compiled from interviews with journalist Eugene... Read more >
In Our Own Words
Written by Eugene Masterson
Foreword by Ronan Keating
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $9.95
WHEN IRISH GUYS ARE SMILING
Meet Westlife: Nicky, Mark, Bryan, Kian, and Shane--America's new pop sensation. These five Irish lads have broken record after record in their rise from obscurity to stardom. Now in Westlife: In Our Own Words the band tells their story, their way. Compiled from interviews with journalist Eugene... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Lowside of the Road
A Life of Tom Waits
Written by Barney Hoskyns
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $29.95
A Life of Tom Waits
Written by Barney Hoskyns
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $29.95
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for...
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