{"title":"David Margolick","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"beyond-glory-book-david-margolick-9780747561859","title":"Beyond Glory","description":"In 1938, a match was to be fought between two rival boxers - Max Schmeling and Joe Louis. After his win in 1936 against Louis, Schmeling had become the toast of Nazi Germany and now in his corner were Hitler and Goebbels, along with millions of Germans for whom Schmeling symbolised not just national pride but Aryan supremacy. Joe Louis, the ferocious young black boxer, had in his corner almost the entire black community of the US, not to mention many in the Caribbean and Africa, the young Nelson Mandela among them. Alongside, the blacks were Jews everywhere, including those trapped in Hitler's Europe. And, to a degree unprecedented in 1930s America, there was a huge population of the white community who hoped that a black man would knock out a white man. \"Beyond Glory\" tells this classic story, which pulses with energy and captures the two fighters and the passions they aroused in a world that was about to change for ever.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49504980500753,"sku":"GOR004282185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49642091970833,"sku":"GOR003890986","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51490854568209,"sku":"GOR004466563","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747561850.jpg?v=1751137202"},{"product_id":"strange-fruit-book-david-margolick-9780060959562","title":"Strange Fruit","description":"\u003cp\u003eLearn the story behind the song performed by Andra Day in \"United States vs. Billie Holiday\" now on Hulu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, \"Strange Fruit\" is considered the first significant song of the Civil Rights movement and the first direct assault against racial lynchings in the South. First sung in New York's Café Society, these revolutionary lyrics have taken up a life of their own, as David Margolick discusses in his revealing account of the song and the struggle it came to personify.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoted the \"Song of the Century\"\" by Time, \"Strange Fruit\" is a searing evocation of lynching. And when Billie Holiday sang it, she held audiences in rapt attention, moving some to tears, others to anger, and all to a heightened awareness of the racist violence that was still, nearly a century after the Civil War, taking the lives of African Americans. Now, David Margolick's account cuts away the myths that have grown up around both Holiday and her most famous song, allowing readers to discover the true origins of \"Strange Fruit\"\" and the circuitous paths it took to the center of a nation's conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMargolick establishes the political and cultural context that surrounded \"Strange Fruit\" in 1939--a year in which there were three recorded lynchings and suspicion of many others, and which saw the publication of Gone with the Wind--and traces the song's journey through the red-baiting 50s and the incipient Civil Rights movement of the 60s, right up to the reverence it still inspires today. Along the way, Margolick includes commentary and reaction to the song from black and white audiences of different eras, and writers and musicians as varied as Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Pauline Kael, Charles Mingus, Cassandra Wilson, Maya Angelou, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring the intricate nexus between jazz, race, and politics, Strange Fruit opens a window onto an extraordinary song, the woman who sang it, and the role it played in our culture's evolving consciousness of racism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49522488246545,"sku":"CIN0060959568G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524085063953,"sku":"GOR006052994","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49941013168401,"sku":"CIN0060959568A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50529186611473,"sku":"CIN0060959568VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50750754324753,"sku":"GOR004444744","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983041597713,"sku":"NIN9780060959562","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51319044178193,"sku":"GOR014226581","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0060959568.jpg?v=1750875402"},{"product_id":"beyond-glory-book-david-margolick-9780375726194","title":"Beyond Glory","description":"Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling -- bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men -- a black American and a Nazi German hero -- and depicts the extraordinary buildup to their legendary 1938 rematch. Vividly capturing the outpouring of emotion that the two fighters brought forth, Margolick brilliantly illuminates the cultural and social divisions that they came to represent.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49522542215441,"sku":"CIN0375726195G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50045942726929,"sku":"GOR013844678","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51409676927249,"sku":"GOR003900128","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51424219267345,"sku":"CIN0375726195VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53491911491857,"sku":"NIN9780375726194","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375726195.jpg?v=1777111813"},{"product_id":"undue-influence-book-david-margolick-9780688064259","title":"Undue Influence","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523622117649,"sku":"GOR009546105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50290860589329,"sku":"CIN0688064256VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50958518092049,"sku":"GOR005713021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416088936721,"sku":"CIN0688064256G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51765698101521,"sku":"CIN0688064256A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0688064256.jpg?v=1751041575"},{"product_id":"dreadful-book-david-margolick-9781590517130","title":"Dreadful","description":"American author John Horne Burns (1916-1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Dreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns' moral ambivalence toward the behaviour of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, Lucifer with a Book (1949), an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533731078417,"sku":"GOR009542849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406672400657,"sku":"CIN159051713XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764535824657,"sku":"CIN159051713XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51202463793425,"sku":"GOR014198081","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/159051713X.jpg?v=1751442935"},{"product_id":"elizabeth-and-hazel-book-david-margolick-9780300141931","title":"Elizabeth and Hazel","description":"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation - in Little Rock and throughout the South - and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed - perhaps inevitably - over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548781388049,"sku":"GOR007381947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49796136534289,"sku":"CIN0300141939G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50269028057361,"sku":"CIN0300141939A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53437772529937,"sku":"CIN0300141939VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300141939.jpg?v=1751070807"},{"product_id":"beyond-glory-book-david-margolick-9780747553885","title":"Beyond Glory","description":"When they first met in the ring in 1936, Joe Louis was riding the crest of a wave and the German champion Max Schmeling was staging a desperately needed comeback. Schmeling had studied films of Louis' fights and knew his weak spots. Louis paid dearly, and while Schmeling regained his former glory and became the toast of Nazi Germany, Black America grieved. Two years later, the rematch was about more than a boxing title. In Schmeling's corner were Hitler and Goebbels, along with millions of Germans and Austrians for whom Schmeling symbolized not just national pride but Aryan supremacy, and some Americans who were still uncomfortable with a black man's pre-eminence in anything. In Louis' corner were almost the entire black community of the US, not to mention many in the Caribbean and Africa, the young Nelson Mandela among them. Alongside the blacks, were Jews everywhere, including those trapped in Hitler's Europe. And to a degree unprecedented in Jim Crow America there was a huge population of the white community, hoping that a black man would knock out a white man. This is the story of a momentous fight that was not only symbolic of the coming struggle against the Third Reich, but also of the first glimmering of the post-war move towards civil rights in the USA. David Margolick has written a classic of sporting and social history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49549253050641,"sku":"GOR004905432","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53124314398993,"sku":"GOR006308197","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0747553882.jpg?v=1751263993"},{"product_id":"strange-fruit-billie-holiday-cafe-society-and-an-early-cry-for-civil-rights-book-david-margolick-9781841952840","title":"Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society And An Early Cry For Civil Rights","description":"The story of the song that foretold a movement and the Lady who dared sing it. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance. The song's powerful, evocative lyrics - written by a Jewish communist schoolteacher - portray the lynching of a black man in the South. In 1939, its performance sparked controversy (and sometimes violence) wherever Billie Holiday went. Not until sixteen years later did Rosa Parks refuse to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Yet 'Strange Fruit' lived on, and Margolick chronicles its effect on those who experienced it first-hand: musicians, artists, journalists, intellectuals, students, budding activists, even the waitresses and bartenders who worked the clubs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600188875025,"sku":"GOR010748267","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49646147436817,"sku":"GOR004506287","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656161534225,"sku":"GOR003448641","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400581878033,"sku":"CIN1841952842A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51336038187281,"sku":"NGR9781841952840","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51776903381265,"sku":"GOR010106056","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1841952842.jpg?v=1750930866"},{"product_id":"dreadful-book-david-margolick-9781590515716","title":"Dreadful","description":"American author John Horne Burns (1916-1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. During WWII, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, The Gallery (1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to depict gay life in the military. Dreadful follows Burns, from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy, and covers all of his scandals with insight.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49623085580561,"sku":"GOR004984774","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49926585155857,"sku":"CIN1590515714G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50727161725201,"sku":"CIN1590515714VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53510307807505,"sku":"CIN1590515714A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1590515714.jpg?v=1751245493"},{"product_id":"elizabeth-and-hazel-book-david-margolick-9780300187922","title":"Elizabeth and Hazel","description":"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation - in Little Rock and throughout the South - and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. This book explores how this haunting picture came to be taken.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49654394781969,"sku":"GOR005204083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50278246580497,"sku":"GOR011105471","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348036849937,"sku":"CIN0300187920G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348069978385,"sku":"CIN0300187920VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50520261034257,"sku":"GOR008559641","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300187920.jpg?v=1751038159"},{"product_id":"strange-fruit-book-david-margolick-9780762406777","title":"Strange Fruit","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49678122942737,"sku":"CIN0762406771G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332710170897,"sku":"CIN0762406771A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51677951590673,"sku":"GOR004111634","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53422204092689,"sku":"CIN0762406771VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0762406771.jpg?v=1750978439"},{"product_id":"at-the-bar-book-david-margolick-9780671887872","title":"At the Bar","description":"Every Friday for seven years, David Margolick has examined the American fascination with the culture of law and lawyering in his New York Times column, At the Bar. Here are the best of his observations on the lawyer's trade -- from its noblest moments to its greatest blunders. From profiles of distinguished or notorious legal professionals to provocative explorations of legal ethics and observations on the changing legal profession, this collection is an entertaining must-read for anyone interested in the folkways of modern American law, put forth with wit, rigor, and insight by one of the nation's foremost legal commentators.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49809781227793,"sku":"CIN0671887874G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909410169105,"sku":"CIN0671887874VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52952013275409,"sku":"NIN9780671887872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53115199717649,"sku":"CIN0671887874A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0671887874.jpg?v=1751198640"},{"product_id":"undue-influence-book-david-margolick-9780688137878","title":"Undue Influence","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007364174097,"sku":"CIN0688137873A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50310476759313,"sku":"CIN0688137873G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416116429073,"sku":"CIN0688137873VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0688137873.jpg?v=1751393885"},{"product_id":"promise-and-the-dream-book-david-margolick-9780578950518","title":"The Promise and the Dream","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50032044146961,"sku":"CIN0578950510G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004179808529,"sku":"NIN9780578950518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689312219409,"sku":"NLS9780578950518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0578950510.jpg?v=1750782876"},{"product_id":"promise-and-the-dream-book-david-margolick-9781948122269","title":"The Promise and the Dream","description":"No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in the 1960s than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex and ever-evolving relationship between these two American icons. Assassinated only sixty-two days apart in 1968, King and Kennedy changed the United States forever, and their deaths profoundly altered the country's trajectory. The Promise and the Dream offers a compelling look at one of the most consequential but misunderstood relationships in our nation's history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50145548861713,"sku":"CIN194812226XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50298551632145,"sku":"CIN194812226XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/194812226X.jpg?v=1750997840"},{"product_id":"beyond-glory-book-david-margolick-9780375411922","title":"Beyond Glory","description":"Nothing in the annals of sports has aroused more passion than the heavyweight fights in New York in 1936 and 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling -- bouts that symbolized the hopes, hatreds, and fears of a world moving toward total war. Acclaimed journalist David Margolick takes us into the careers of both men -- a black American and a Nazi German hero -- and depicts the extraordinary buildup to their legendary 1938 rematch. Vividly capturing the outpouring of emotion that the two fighters brought forth, Margolick brilliantly illuminates the cultural and social divisions that they came to represent.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50160591307025,"sku":"CIN0375411925G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50590652399889,"sku":"CIN0375411925VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51100482240785,"sku":"CIN0375411925A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51691028087057,"sku":"GOR014362898","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52925636673809,"sku":"GOR005772604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375411925.jpg?v=1751391074"},{"product_id":"when-caesar-was-king-book-david-margolick-9780805242553","title":"When Caesar Was King","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PEN\/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY . FEATURED ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING . From longtime \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar- founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Whip smart. . . . A nuanced appreciation of Caesar's comedy and the overall atmosphere of TV's early days.\" -\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By the spring of 1954, Sid Caesar was the most influential, highly paid, and enigmatic comedian in America. Every week, twenty million people tuned their TVs to his NBC extravaganza, \u003ci\u003eYour Show of Shows\u003c\/i\u003e, and witnessed his virtuosity in sketches and film spoofs, pantomime and soliloquy. Onstage, Caesar could play any character and make it funny- a befuddled game-show contestant, a pretentious German professor, a beleaguered husband (opposite his redoubtable co-star Imogene Coca)-even a gumball machine and a bottle of seltzer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To Caesar's mostly urban audience, his comedy was an era-defining leap forward from the days of vaudeville, launching a new style of humor that was multilayered and full of character, yet still uproarious. To his rivals, Caesar was the man to beat. To his fellow American Jews, his show's success meant something more- a post-Holocaust symbol of security and a source of great pride. But behind all that Caesar represented was the real Sid. Introverted and volatile, ill at ease in his own skin, he could terrorize his collaborators but reserved his harshest critiques for himself. After barely a decade, he was essentially off the air, beset by exhaustion, addiction, his own impossibly high standards, and changing viewership as television spread to the American heartland. TV's first true comic creation was also its first spectacular flameout.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But in his wake came the disciples he personally nurtured-including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and more. Caesar left an indelible impact on what still makes us laugh. In \u003ci\u003eWhen Caesar Was King\u003c\/i\u003e, veteran journalist David Margolick conjures this complexman as never before. Deeply researched, brimming with love for Caesar and the culture from which he sprang, and reanimating a New York City that has all but vanished, this rollicking and poignant book traces the rise and fall of a legend.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51783851802897,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51783852032273,"sku":"NGR9780805242553","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52629160001809,"sku":"NIN9780805242553","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52772116889873,"sku":"CIN0805242554G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53344914047249,"sku":"GOR014862704","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53445753733393,"sku":"CIN0805242554VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53448644526353,"sku":"GOR014926444","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780805242553.jpg?v=1769688223"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-david-margolick.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}