Hachette Non-Fiction

• Author(s): Nat Hentoff • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzHere is Nat Hentoff's deeply felt exploration of jazz, blues, country, and gospel -- and the musicians who bring the music to life. Hent...

• Author(s): Michael Pearson • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Using firsthand accounts--journals, letters from British officers in the fie...

• Author(s): Gary Giddins • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzIn a companion to his collections Riding on a Blue Note and Faces in the Crowd, Gary Giddins has assembled a mosaic of pieces that prov...

• Author(s): Eric Nisenson • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicSonny Rollins is one of jazz's great innovators, arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist, along with John Coltrane, in the history of m...

• Author(s): Maria Perry • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: RoyaltyHenry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians, affected the lives of their contemporaries much more forcefully than did any of t...

• Author(s): John Leggett • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Literary FiguresHere, at last back in print, is the classic dual biography of Ross Lockridge and Thomas Heggen, two authors who...

• Author(s): Richard Lourie • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: LiteraryIn a spellbinding novel that combines the suspense of a thriller and the accuracy of a work of history, the psychology of a monster is full...

• Author(s): Eleanor Roosevelt • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Historical"Documents the American landscape as seen by two intelligent, influential women who loved their country, and each other, with a passio...

• Author(s): Douglas Wolk • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralWelcome to the first volume in an exciting new annual series that celebrates the year's best American writing about music and it...

• Author(s): Joe Jackson • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicSince the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality a...

• Author(s): Jack Beatty • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Political"A truly brilliant biography."--John Kenneth Galbraith, Chicago Tribune Twice jailed while serving in office yet a cham...

• Author(s): Rick Koster • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralWhat is it about Louisiana that breeds and attracts musicians? There are literally hundreds of them -- Dr. John, Harr...

• Author(s): Charles P. Pierce • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: EssaysHere, at last, is Charles Pierce's best writing on sports, collected for the first time in one volume. All of these pieces, first publishe...

• Author(s): Isaac W. Stern • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicThere is no more beloved musician in the classical world than Isaac Stern, revered not only as a great violinist but also as a generous person...

• Author(s): Ira Gitler • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralBack in the early 1940s, late at night in the clubs of Harlem, a handful of jazz musicians began to experiment with a style that n...

• Author(s): Eleanor Roosevelt • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - 20th Century"I think Eleanor Roosevelt has so gripped the imagination of this moment because we need her and her vision so compl...

• Author(s): Thomas Powers • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Europe - Germany"Full of fascinating characters, deeds of heroic daring . . . [a] powerful book." -- New York Times One of th...

• Author(s): Christine Wiltz • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,The incredible life of French Quarter legend Norma Wallace -- and a portrait of an...

• Author(s): Gary Giddins • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicGary Giddins has been called "the best jazz writer in America today" (Esquire). Louis Armstrong has been called the most influential jazz musician of the ce...

• Author(s): Stanley Dance • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Music"The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape."-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's gre...

• Author(s): Stanley Dance • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzNow available for a new generation of swing enthusiasts, reissued to coincide with the release of "The World of Swing" CD from Columbi...

• Author(s): Ed Morales • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: EthnomusicologyThe Latin explosion of Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, and the Buena Vista Social Club may look like it came out of nowhere, but the incredible variety ...

• Author(s): John Waugh • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: American Government - Executive BranchHere, from the author of the acclaimed book The Class of 1846, is the dramatic story of wha...

• Author(s): Edward Rice • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalA New York Times best-seller when it was first published, Rice's biography is the gripping story of a fierce, magnetic, and brilliant man wh...

• Author(s): David Darlington • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Beverages - Alcoholic- GeneralHere is the book that Frank J. Prial in the New York Times Book Review called "delightful...it weaves history, geog...

• Author(s): Gerald Astor • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Military - United StatesFrom the birth of the United States, African American men and women have fought and died in defense of a nation that has ofte...

• Author(s): Jan Morris • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateWith a fresh eye and inimitable style, the peerless travel and history writer Jan Morris journeys through the life of Ab...

• Author(s): Christiane Bird • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzWhere did Charlie Parker first play with Dizzy Gillespie? What are the coolest clubs in Chicago? Which city has the largest jazz mus...

• Author(s): Albert a. Nofi • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Military - United StatesIt was a small war -- probably no more than 2,500 men were ever engaged in a single action, both side...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Abbott • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Eliz...

• Author(s): Jane Alexander • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: PoliticalJane Alexander had never been involved in mainstream politics and was happily engaged in her acting career when she ...

• Author(s): Harvey Cox • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Christianity - Pentecostal & CharismaticIt was born a scant ninety-five years ago in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days t...

• Author(s): Art Neville • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicBorn to a music-loving family, the Neville brothers grew up immersed in the sounds and culture of New Orleans, and the blended rhythms of the cit...

• Author(s): Richard Smith • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicConsidering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence--Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few--it can...

• Author(s): Francis Davis • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzFrom Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing ...

• Author(s): Joseph Masheck • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Movements - ModernismBest known for cheeky conceptual works--like his signed urinals ("R. Mutt") and his graffitioed Mona Lis...

• Author(s): Karl Sabbagh • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoryA Rum Affair is an absorbing tale of scientific chicanery and academic intrigue-critically acclaimed and a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesB...

• Author(s): E. B. Long • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: HistoricalAmong the autobiographies of generals and statesmen, the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant ranks with the greatest. Mark T...

• Author(s): Bill Cole • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicJohn Coltrane (1926-1967) was one of the most innovative forces in African- American music. By experimenting with new concepts of time, integrating Eastern phi...

• Author(s): John Prevas • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Ancient - RomeWhen he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and e...

• Author(s): John Cleese • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Television - ScreenwritingWhat did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the...

• Author(s): Mary Oliver • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: American - GeneralAn astonishing book-length poem in seven parts from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Awa...

• Author(s): Mort Rosenblum • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: World - GeneralMort Rosenblum, a celebrated foreign correspondent, invites us aboard his fifty-four-foot launch tied up in the center of Paris and ...

• Author(s): Roy Basler • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, a...

• Author(s): Francis Parkman • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: World - GeneralFrancis Parkman thought of Montcalm and Wolfe (1884) as his masterpiece, and that estimate has prevailed for ...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe Tuscan landscape, writes H. V. Morton, "is embroidered everywhere by human living, and there is scarcely a hill, a stream, a grove ...

• Author(s): Joan Schenkar • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalBorn a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twenti...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Middle East - IsraelHere, in the spirit of Bruce Feiler's beloved bestseller Walking the Bible, is a portrait of the Holy Land as a physical embodime...

• Author(s): Leonard Garment • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: HistoricalLeonard Garment was a successful Wall Street attorney when, in 1965, he found himself arguing a Supreme Court case...

• Author(s): David Gates • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralThe war that drained Napoleon's armies and set the stage for his ultimate defeat at Waterloo. The Peninsular War in Spa...

• Author(s): Nat Hentoff • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, and civil rights to jazz, blues and country music, Nat Hentoff has wr...

• Author(s): Christopher Hibbert • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: HistoricalIn this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's gr...

• Author(s): Ron Powers • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Literary FiguresWhile Mark Twain remains one of our most quintessentially American writers, the actual boyhood experiences that f...

• Author(s): Bing Crosby • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicA candid self-portrait of one of the most gifted of all American entertainers Bing Crosby once said, when asked to explain his success, "Every man who sees o...

• Author(s): Roscoe C. Blunt • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: World - GeneralThrough the prism of ultimate victory, the greatest generation that fought World War II has been seen as triu...

• Author(s): Barbara Belford • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Literary Figures"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post. Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard--...

• Author(s): David Gans • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - RockA collection of interviews--some vintage, some recent, and some brand-new--Conversations with the Dead is the first (and only...

• Author(s): H. V. Morton • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesCurrently in its 40th printing with its original publisher in the UK, this is the book that one British newspaper has called ...

• Author(s): Ned Rorem • Publisher: Da Capo • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo • BISAC: MusicThis latest installment of Ned Rorem's diary opens in 1986, when the author is sixty-two, and closes in 1999, when he is seventy-five. Though Rorem remains as ...

• Author(s): Sidney Bechet • Publisher: Da Capo Press • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press • BISAC: MusicA legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) pla...