Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things (well, books) 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:
Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 (Baseball)
Louis Menand, The Free World: Art & Thought in the Cold War (History)
Joel Selvin, Hollywood Eden (Music)
Ronald Brownstein, Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics (Music/Movies)
Ted Gioia, Music: A Subversive History (Music)
Thomas Wolf, The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Baseball)
Luke Epplin, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball (Baseball)
Aaron Leonard, The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956 (Music)
Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Music)
Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination (Music)
Robert Forster, Grant & I (Music)
Joseph McBride, Two Cheers for Hollywood (Movies)
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)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)
Colin Westerbeck, Vivian Meier: The Color Work (Photography)
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