Examines the history of business in the United States during the 1800s, discussing the growth of railroads, and the innovations in the oil and steel industries.
Examines the history of communication in the United States, particularly the technological advances of the late nineteenth century that improved transmission speed from weeks or months to hours or min
The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that de
The story of psychedelics and the Grateful Dead is a secret American through-line between the 1950s and the present, an always-radical and ever-changing counterculture that continues to have a transfo
The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top 10 hits t
The sweeping untold history of the American psychedelic underground, the Grateful Dead, and beyond . . .Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America uncovers a hidden history of the biggest psychedelic
