Harvey Rachlin, Author Penguin Group(CA) $14 (344p) ISBN 978-0-14-303835-1
Readers may find an entirely new appreciation for art and its creators after reading Rachlin's dishy tales of the people behind and beyond 26 famous canvases. Using Caraveggio's David with the Head of Goliath, Rachlin explores how an artist might ""d
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Harvey Rachlin, Author Pocket Books $19.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-671-66525-8
Rachlin ( The Songwriter's Handbook ) monitored a class of recruits through their 23-week course at the New York City Police Academy in 1988, concentrating on four of them. The result is a sympathetic chronicle of the conversion of 860 civilians...
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Harvey Rachlin, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-03797-5
The career of a New York City police officer--in particular a homicide detective--has never been more graphically or expertly related than in this probing look at David Carbone by the author of The Making of a Cop. Carbone, from a large Italian-Ameri
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Harvey Rachlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3965-8
Rachlin examines 50 key objects and artifacts of human history, presented in chronological order and ranging from the Rosetta stone to Anne Frank's diary. (Nov.)
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Harvey Rachlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3964-1
The Shroud of Turin, George Washington's false teeth, King Tutankhamen's royal burial treasures, a three-billion-year-old Ethiopian king Hammurabi are among the artifacts and relics spotlighted in this entertaining and enlightening survey. Organized
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Harvey Rachlin, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (372p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5683-9
In an irresistible, edifying romp through the centuries, Rachlin uses artifacts as portals to the past as he skips from a venerated tooth preserved in a Sri Lankan temple, believed to have come from Buddha's mouth, to the metal folding table on...
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Harvey Rachlin. Rowman & Littlefield, $33 (306p) ISBN 978-1-5381-1212-0
Rachlin (The Songwriter’s Handbook), coordinator of the music business program at Manhattanville College, expertly lays out the history of pop music by framing “the evolution of the music business with the evolution of the popular song.” From the...
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