Dear Santa

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree.  If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

Books:

Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History (Music)

Bob Gruen, Right Place Right Time: The Life of a Rock and Roll Photographer (Biography/Photography)

Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous (Biography/Photography)

Billy Bragg, Roots, Radicals and Rockers (Music) 

Melissa Maerz, Alright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused (Film) 

Mitchell Nathanson, Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original (Baseball)

Dave Hickey, Perfect Wave: More Essays on Art and Democracy (Essays)

Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Music)

Robert Forster, Grant & I (Music)

Joseph McBride, Two Cheers for Hollywood (Movies)

Daryl Sanders, The Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Bob Dylan, Nashville and the Making of Blonde on Blonde (Music)

Philip Zeigler, Between the Wars (History)

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Music)

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (History)

David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)

Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Meier: The Color Work (Photography)