Rick Burin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Michael PalinRick Burin@Madmaddingcrowd Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Anderson, 1956)
Paperback, 2024
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dramatic Works of John Ford: 2
John FordRick BurinNo man has all 5: 1. Way Down East (D. W. Griffith, 1920) 2. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002) 3. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) 4. The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968) 5. Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) on Blu-ray
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The Suez Canal: Letters And Documents Descriptive Of Its Rise And Progress In 1854-1856
Ferdinand De LessepsRick BurinPhilip Dunne: “Tyrone Power played Ferdinand de Lesseps … So he dug the Suez Canal, so what? My partner Julien Josephson and I invented a love story with the Empress of France (Loretta Young) to keep audiences going. We had to. The man was the world's biggest bore.”
Paperback, 2010
$32.95Member price:$29.66 + Free shipping10% off
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick PerlsteinRick BurinInteresting that Truss cites Nixonland by Rick Perlstein as her favourite book, as it’s basically a culture wars playbook. I wrote this about it last year: https://t.co/0pFqtbIhVz
Paperback, 2009
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856
Ferdinand De LessepsRick BurinPhilip Dunne: “Tyrone Power played Ferdinand de Lesseps … So he dug the Suez Canal, so what? My partner Julien Josephson and I invented a love story with the Empress of France (Loretta Young) to keep audiences going. We had to. The man was the world's biggest bore.”
Paperback, 2019
$36.90Member price:$18.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elvis: Remembering August 16, 1977
Spike CollamoreRick BurinIt was Michael Curtiz. He also made the greatest gangster movie of all time, directed Elvis’s best film, and launched the careers of Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Doris Day. https://t.co/SQr3tAbV5r
Paperback, 2006
$13.99Member price:$13.29 + Free shipping5% off
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob DylanRick BurinSome thoughts on the Bob Dylan book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, which is kind of good, kind of bad, kind of boring, kind of nuts. https://t.co/WSrogyNtYp https://t.co/2giRAv8rhu
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edith: A Tale of Belle Isle, Windermere. in Verse.
James RobinsonRick BurinHere’s everything I read this year. Thrill as I rave about Edith Wharton, snore as I devour at least two more books about the communist witchhunt in 1940s Hollywood. Plus: Henry James, Bruce Robinson, Preston Sturges, Penelope Fitzgerald and Kurt Vonnegut. https://t.co/fnMw6FtQID https://t.co/QbK2OZi8ER
Paperback, 2011
$17.75Member price:$8.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
David StennRick Burin@AliPlumb Going a bit narrower, some favourite biogs: Baby, I Don’t Care (Mitchum) McBride’s Searching for John Ford David Stenn: Clara Bow Damned in Paradise (John Barrymore) James Naremore’s book on Welles’ work is brilliant too.
Paperback, 2000
$24.95Member price:$24.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progression
Ferdinand M. LessepsRick BurinPhilip Dunne: “Tyrone Power played Ferdinand de Lesseps … So he dug the Suez Canal, so what? My partner Julien Josephson and I invented a love story with the Empress of France (Loretta Young) to keep audiences going. We had to. The man was the world's biggest bore.”
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