Alice Echols, Author . Columbia Univ. $49.50 (304p) ISBN 978-0-231-10671-9
This collection of 15 essays by a noted social critic makes a good stab at reassessing both the decade and its continuing effects on culture and politics. Echols's canvas is broad, covering everything from the effect of TV on the civil rights...
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Alice Echols, Author Norton $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-393-06675-3
As American studies professor and Janis Joplin biographer (Scars of Sweet Paradise
) Echols succinctly states, “Nothing seems to conjure up the seventies quite so effectively as disco.” But while the decade’s weltanschauung is...
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Alice Echols, Author Metropolitan Books $26 (408p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5387-6
In the introduction to this richly textured biography of the trailblazing blues-rock superstar who succumbed to a heroin overdose in 1970, Echols (Daring to Be Bad) informs us that she is not going to give us ""a blow-by-blow account of Janis's...
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Alice Echols. New Press, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-62097-303-5
Bankruptcy and fraud run through the ostensibly wholesome business culture of small-town America in this intimate study of a Depression-era building-and-loan failure. Echols (Hot Stuff), professor of history at the University of Southern California,
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