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Hardcover:

9780062005595 | Harpercollins, September 24, 2013, cover price $27.99

Paperback:

9780062005618 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 21, 2014), cover price $16.99

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482967678 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2014), cover price $32.95

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Product Description: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.] [Read by Kevin Kenerly]Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482967654 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2014), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: [LIBRARY EDITION Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl Case with cloth sleeves that keep compact discs protected.

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Product Description: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. *NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.][Read by Kevin Kenerly] Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America...read more

CD/Spoken Word:

9781482967661 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case.

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Hardcover:

9780465015375 | Basic Civitas Books, November 30, 2011, cover price $19.95

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In comic book format, examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who championed nonviolent protest and 'had a dream' of equality for all.
By Stanley Crouch (introduced by)

Paperback:

9781560976226 | Fantagraphics Books, February 28, 2005, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In comic book format, examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who championed nonviolent protest and 'had a dream' of equality for all.

Prebinding:

9781435271449 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 9, 2008), cover price $31.95

A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679438144 | Pantheon Books, September 6, 2010, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame.

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A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame. Simultaneous.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781433201967 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame.
9781433201974 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 30, 2008), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781433201950 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study of the formative years of the influential and troubled jazz luminary traces his early career, from his Kansas City childhood and musical apprenticeship, to his 1937 move to Harlem and the beginning of his rise to fame.

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Hardcover:

9780465015177 | Basic Civitas Books, June 5, 2006, cover price $27.50

Paperback:

9780465015122 | Basic Civitas Books, April 9, 2007, cover price $16.95

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Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
By Stanley Crouch (contributor), Paul Karasik (editor) and Brian Walker (editor)

Hardcover:

9780300113174 | Yale Univ Pr, November 28, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

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Product Description: Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on issues surrounding the often misdirected American hunger for "authenticity...read more

Hardcover:

9780465015153 | Basic Books, October 30, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A look at racial politics in the arts examines the idea of authenticity and the national fixation on finding 'the real thing' by investigating the motives of those that claim to be authentic and those that call those claims into question.

Paperback:

9780465015160 | Basic Civitas Books, November 7, 2005, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay.

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As Carla, a up-and-coming jazz singer, prepares to wed her saxophonist husband, the tensions created by their inter-racial relationship come to the fore. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780375409325 | Pantheon Books, April 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: As Carla, an up-and-coming jazz singer, prepares to wed her saxophonist husband, the tensions created by their interracial relationship come to the fore

Paperback:

9780375724473 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 10, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As Carla, a up-and-coming jazz singer, prepares to wed her saxophonist husband, the tensions created by their inter-racial relationship come to the fore.

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Presents an incisive reassessment of the classic work on the African-American experience by W. E. B. Du Bois, first published one hundred years ago. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780762413492 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents a reassessment of the classic work on African Americans by W.

Paperback:

9780762416998 | Reprint edition (Running Pr Book Pub, December 15, 2003), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents an incisive reassessment of the classic work on the African-American experience by W.

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Product Description: As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Charles H. "Teenie" Harris traveled the alleys, workplaces, nightclubs, and neighborhoods of his native Pittsburgh with a Speed Graphic camera in hand...read more

Hardcover:

9780810932722 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the pre-eminent black newsweeklies in America, Charles H.

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Product Description: In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual burst onto the scene. It was a lacerating attack on integration, and set the agenda for black cultural, social, and political autonomy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William Jelani Cobb (editor), Stanley Crouch (foreword by) and Harold Cruse

Hardcover:

9780312293970 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into a bitter, often violent battle for black power, Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual burst onto the scene.

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Product Description:   As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic. Whether he is writing on the uniqueness of the American South, the death of Tupak Shakur, the O.J. Simpson verdict, or the damage done by the Oklahoma City bombing, Crouch's high-velocity exchange with American culture is conducted with scrupulous allegiance to the truth, even when it hurts—and it usually does...read more

Paperback:

9780375701689 | Vintage Books, March 16, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition:   As a cultural and political commentator, Stanley Crouch in unapologetically contentious and delightfully iconoclastic.

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A nationally prominent social critic presents a collection of distinctive, thoughtful essays on the sublime and the ridiculous in American politics, popular culture, and race relations. By the author of The All-American Skin Game. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780375401534 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, February 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays on the sublime and the ridiculous in American politics, popular culture, and race relations

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Writings represent the author's views on race in the Constitution, feminism, literature, jazz, and cinema (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780679776604 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Writings represent the author's views on race in the Constitution, feminism, literature, jazz, and cinema

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A collection of essays by a controversial writer and critic provides an iconoclastic view of race in American culture and society, and considers such topics as blues, the myth of the rebel, and Dizzy Gillespie. 15,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780679442028 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, October 1, 1995), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of speeches, essays, and reviews gather the author's views on race in the Constitution, feminism, literature, jazz, and cinema

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Discusses Jesse Jackson, James Baldwin and other leading African-American writers and public figures and recounts the author's travels

Hardcover:

9780195055917 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discusses Jesse Jackson, James Baldwin and other leading African-American writers and public figures and recounts the author's travels

Paperback:

9780195069983 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1991), cover price $12.95

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