From the comedy clubs of New York to his big break on "Saturday Night Live" to block-buster films like "Big Daddy" and "Little Nicky" Adam Sandler has left America howling in their seats and peeing in their pants. Sandler has emerged as the decade's most unstoppable comedic-and the ladies love him! But how many people know the story behind this lovable comedic prodigy's ascent to fame? Bill Crawford takes you back to Sandler's childhood in a small New Hampshire Town, where his stand-up rou...

"All American is riveting and grand-that rare pairing of exquisite writing and unassailable research. Crawford delivers you to an age when iconic titans like Jim Thorpe and Pop Warner marched across the planet, and he is the perfect guide to their enormous triumphs and tragedies. This is epic American history at its page-turning finest."-Bill Minutaglio, author of City on Fire and First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family DynastyHe was the greatest football running back ...

The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is more symbolic of that debate than Texas.Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1977, Texas has put more than 390 prisoners to death, far more than any other state. Texas Death Row puts faces to those condemned men and women, with stark and strangely engaging details on their crimes, sentencing, last meals, and last words.Definitive, object...

If you think you've heard every dumb thing they've said or done...think again!Outrageous indulgent, and downright dumb. That's right, we're talking aout the words and deeds committed by politicians, our favorite and least favorite people in the whole world. In this hilarious collections, it's he Democrats who step up to the mike, open their mouths, and insert their collective feet.Democrats do the dumbest things. Just ask any Republican who might wonder how Senator Ted Kenned...

Bill Crawford follows up his hit books Rock Stars do the Dumbest Things and Movie Stars do the Dumbest Things with a volume that reinforces what we've known all along - Republicans do the Dumbest Things. From George Bush barfing on the Japanese prime minister to Ronald Reagan's announcement of nuclear war, Republicans do the Dumbest Things is the first book to celebrate and catalogue the hilarious heritage of the GOP. This collection includes all the misguided ...

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for NonfictionBill Crawford thought his modern-day Republican Party would lift Mississippi off the bottom, a notion born of Gil Carmichael’s vision for good government conservatism. A Republican’s Lament tells of Crawford’s dedicated efforts to implement Carmichael’s vision, his keen observations of Mississippi’s struggles, and his critical commentaries over the past half century....

Long before movie stars Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governors of California, a popular radio personality with no previous political experience—who wasn't even registered to vote—swept into the governor's office of Texas. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was a 1930s businessman who discovered the power of radio to sell flour. His musical shows with the Light Crust Doughboys (which launched the career of Bob Wills) and his radio homilies extolling family and Christian values found a v...

Dark LennyBy: Bill CrawfordLenny is the school bad boy and when Kev convinces his brother Wes to let him spend the night at his house, he realizes quickly Lenny is nuts and it might have been a big mistake. But then, he shows him something in a backyard a few blocks away that turns his world upside down. Something that would change his life as well as his brother’s and their closest friends forever, something right out of a fairy tale.As Kev is trying to believe wha...

" Border Radio tells the 50,000-watt clear-channel story of the most outrageous and audacious phenomenon to ever hit the airwaves."— Los Angeles TimesBefore the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.This book...

Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.--Where else will you find an explanation (goodness knows, we need one) of the Spice Girls' fourteen and one-half minutes of fame straight from the mouths of babes--Baby Spice, that is? "We're li...

Johnny Depp. Marilyn Monroe. Marlon Brando. Leonardo DiCaprio. Woody Allen. Shanron Stone. What do all of these actors have in common? They're outrageous, receive huge salaries, have enormous egos, and have way too much spare time. Their out-of-control lifestyles prove that, as one Hollywood observer noted, "Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat."You'll learn which director was furious when he was misquoted as saying, "Actors are cattle." He claimed he had rea...

Kattava elämäkerta yhdestä kaikkien aikojen merkittävimmistä kitaristeista.Kirja kartoittaa Stevie Ray Vaughanin elämän ja ainutlaatuisen musiikkiuran vaiheet. Kirja on myös kiehtova matka Texas bluesin ytimeen Dallasiin ja Austiniin, missä nuori Stevie Ray eli ja hengitti bluesia.Vaughan esiintyi ilta toisensa jälkeen pitkin ja poikin maailmaa. Hänen ylivertainen tekniikkansa yhdistettynä blues-rockiin meni suoraan miljoonien kuulijoiden sydämiin.Kuumeinen elämäntyyli...