Product Description: Years before Diana Ross, Mary Wells was the first Motown solo superstar, the internationally popular songstress who sang the megahit “My Guy.” Her songs consistently and repeatedly reached huge audiences in America and England, both black and white...read more

Product Description: In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history—the Supremes—told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown Records czar Berry Gordy, her drinking problem and pleas for help, a never-ending desire to be the Supremes’ lead singer, and her attempts to get her life back on track after being brutally expelled from the group...read more

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Product Description: A joint project of the National Education Association and the National Writers Union. Includes index.

A study of the newspaper industry discusses the battle for control of major metropolitan dailies, the manipulation of power and fortunes, and the personalities involved, including Rupert Murdoch, Walter Annenberg, Katherine Graham, and William Randolph Hearst