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 Palin
@Madmaddingcrowd Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Anderson, 1956)
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dramatic Works of John Ford: 2
John Ford
No 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 Lesseps
Philip 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
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Rick Perlstein
Interesting 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
$26.00$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 Lesseps
Philip 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
$36.90$18.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elvis: Remembering August 16, 1977
Spike Collamore
It 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
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
Some 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
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edith: A Tale of Belle Isle, Windermere. in Verse.
James Robinson
Here’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
$17.75$8.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
David Stenn
@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
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progression
Ferdinand M. Lesseps
Philip 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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