Celebrity Nation

From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby boomer” comes Celebrity Nation, an exploration into how and why fame no longer stems only from heroic achievements but from the number of “likes” and shares—and what this change means for American culture. Landon Jones—who spent decades in “celebrityland” only to emerge, like Alice, blinking in the sunlight—brings a personal and first-person perspective on fame and its dark underbelly, complicated even further by the arrival of the internet and social media.

"Bunny told me there were secrets about me that she would take to the grave, secrets that no one would ever hear, including me...." Tom Wilson always felt something wasn't quite right. His parents, Bunny and George, were much older than other kids' parents. There were no baby photos of him in the house. At school, classmates called him Indian, despite his parents' Irish-Quebecois background. And as he got older, friends, lovers and even family members remarked on his uncanny resemblance to Bunny's closest relative, her niece Janie Lazare....

The Nation Holds Its Breath is George Hamilton’s eagerly awaited and wonderfully told journey through a rich and varied career in broadcasting. As the undisputed voice of Irish football, George’s evocative and celebrated commentary is familiar to millions. He has captured the highs and lows of Irish sport for generations of fans, ever since he first took up the microphone in the mid-'70s, and he has been enthralling his audiences ever since.

Rechtzeitig zu seinem 60. Geburtstag blickt Wolfgang Bahro auf sein bisheriges Leben zurück, in dem Rechtsanwalt Jo Gerner eine besonders große Rolle spielt. Diesen Juristen mit einem fatalen Hang zu ungesetzlichen Handlungen verkörpert Bahro in der Kultserie "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten" seit 1993. Und zwar so gut, dass er damit zum Publikumsliebling wurde. Obwohl es ein Leben vor Gerner gab und sogar eines neben ihm gibt, in dem Bahro erfolgreich Theater spielt und eigene Kabarettprogramme aufführt, überstrahlt dieser Typ alles.

He was a pioneering film director who had 518 films to his credit. His work spanned the silent and sound eras. Most of his films were completed in a span of 15 years. But today he is known only for one of his films, one considered by historians to be a landmark in cinema as well as the most controversial ever made. He could not escape the controversy of this one film before he died in relative obscurity, his contributions to the motion picture industry forever marred.

In A New America, Tommy Mottola explores the societal and cultural impact the Latino community and its music has had on America by sharing behind-the-scenes stories from his own life and his connection to the Latin sound throughout the decades - from his initial fascination with Latin music which started with Puente, to the mainstream success of Ritchie Valens, to the groove-laden guitar wizardry of Carlos Santana. >But A New America is more than a story about music and musicians. It is the story of a culture that continues to grow and influence America.

The rockin' roots of the extraordinary Summer of Love 1967 as told by the people who made the decade. Featuring previously unreleased interviews with the Beatles, The Who, the Grateful Dead, Cream, The Moody Blues, and other important personalities.